Kerry's Domestic CIA, Total (Medical) Information Awareness & Cipro Ad

From John Kerry's Homeland Security Plan:

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:e_E3jkmPhxEJ:www.johnkerry.com/issues/homeland_plan.html

REFORMING DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Many of the examinations of 9/11 have raised serious questions about whether the FBI is the right agency to conduct domestic intelligence collection and analysis given their fundamental mission is to catch and prosecute criminals. The Bush Administration’s proposed terrorist threat integration center, (TTIC) would not be able to do the job, given its dependence on other agencies' analysts, the bureaucratic divide created between people identifying vulnerabilities and individuals charged with eliminating those vulnerabilities, and the numerous people in charge that could complicate efforts to work with the states and local governments on information sharing. John Kerry believes that simplifying the bureaucratic charts makes more sense. America needs an independent intelligence capability that focuses explicitly on domestic intelligence.


Is Kerry actually advocating a new domestic CIA?


Connecting the Nation’s Public Health Systems with a Real Time Detection System. This initiative would apply the benefits of 21st century modern technology to provide real time reporting of disease outbreaks and track and monitor health trends. Most bioterror illnesses initially look like the flu, and health professionals may not realize a trend. A new real time detection system would pool confidential patient data and pharmacy usage across the country to alert public health officials when disease is on the rise.


And Total Medical Information Awareness?


Increasing Research for Diagnostic Tests, Vaccines, and Treatments. When penicilln was discovered, it was found to treat a wide range of illnesses. Later, Cipro treated a wide range of bacterial diseases, including anthrax Terrorist organizations and hostile dictators are trying to create new biological weapons that will kill us fast with designer variations on existing diseases. We need to bring together the best of the public and private sectors to develop broad-spectrum designer antidotes so that our first responders - and our population -- can be protected and treated from the widest possible range of attacks.


Why Cipro? Why "designer" antibiotics? What in the world is Kerry talking about here? Does he even understand the concept of antibiotics and environmentally driven bacterial resistance? Does he really think there are "antidotes" for viruses? Broad-spectrum designer antidotes for unknownable designer variations on existing diseases? What's next -- magic beans?

And what exactly is the bioterror threat anyway? What James Bond terrorists are in the lab making designer germs as we speak? If we know of any, why aren't we trying to stop them? If we don't know of any, then who are we trying to fool with our sci-fi super-spy fantasies of terror -- other than those of us who still care about the Bill of Rights?

Cipro ? Are you an expert on bacteria, viruses, antibiotics, antidotes, poisons etc ? I think Kerry knows where to find real experts who know what we should be doing in this area. I think you are out of your league. Nice try.

The same poster put a boatload of stupid innuendo and guilt-by-association mumbo-jumbo up against Clark. Don't sweat it.

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