SBL 3/14/2002 Part 1
These resolutions were passed by the Constitution Party National Committee
on March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina
Note: Our God-given are being assaulted from all directions and the
Constitution Party is committed to restoring the Constitution, which will
have
a positive affect on most, if not all of the issues that we are confronted
with. Your support is needed now.
State Model Emergency Health Powers Act
Whereas, the Bush administration and the Federal government are promoting
the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) for enactment
by the fifty states, which completely eliminates the safeguard of separation
of powers and checks and balances. The MEHPA makes the
governor a dictator, taking all powers of government including legislative,
executive, and judicial, and
Whereas, the MEHPA only allows the State Legislature to take action
by a super majority vote sixty days after the governor declares a health
emergency, and
Whereas, the Legislature can only take action "upon finding that the
occurrence of an illness or health condition that caused the emergency
does
not or no longer poses" a threat, which is extremely limiting, and
Whereas, under MEHPA state and local health officers, along with Governors,
are granted dictatorial levels of power with no appeals process to
remedy their unilateral decisions to force people to receive medical
treatment, vaccines, be isolated, quarantined; otherwise to be charged
with
a misdemeanor and possibly end up in jail, and
Whereas, the MEHPA provides no religious or conscientious objections to medical treatment and vaccines, and
Whereas, in MEHPA there is no recognition of parent’s rights and responsibilities
with regard to their children. This is important when you
consider that people possibly might be quarantined separately from
their children, and
Whereas, the MEHPA allows government to confiscate private property
including food, fuel and clothing, and if so, without just compensation,
and
Whereas, alternative health options are completely left out of the MEHPA.
There should be recognition that alternatives to standard medical
treatments and vaccines, etc., are available, often highly effective
and far less dangerous, and
Whereas, the MEHPA provides for the collection of personal medical information,
DNA, tests, etc., the privacy of which is not protected. MEHPA
provides that the information will be turned over to the Federal government
and used for research and end up in state and federal databases.
This is a serious breach of our Fourth Amendment search, seizure, and
privacy rights. Therefore, let it be
Resolved, that the Constitution Party opposes all versions of the State Model Emergency Health Powers Act.
Web location where this resolution is posted
National Constitution Party Website: www.constitutionparty.com
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