Sister Teresa Forcades, a Benedictine nun at the Monastery of Sant Benet de Montserrat near Barcelona, Spain, is a physician of internal medicine specializing in public health. She has written, among other things, Crimes and Abuses of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Cristianisme i Justícia, 2006) and is also the driving force of a video series, “Bell Tolling for the Swine Flu” (English subtitles; six parts).
Sister’s message is made all the more riveting by the dispassionate delivery of meticulous details about this season’s flu, which boil down to: Don’t panic. Take reasonable precautions to stay healthy. But do understand that this so-called “swine flu,” which has a lower mortality than regular seasonal flu, is hardly a pandemic. Understand further that the specific vaccine being offered to protect against this flu is highly problematic. For one thing, it contains an “adjuvant” (an additive to boost the immune system, thus requiring less of the actual vaccine) that is suspected of causing serious illness in some people and contains additional compounds linked to allergies and possibly to autism in children.
Sister goes on to describe numerous “irregularities” surrounding this season’s flu vaccine. It was uncovered this past spring that the Austrian branch of the pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc. sent 72 kilos of a vaccine that mixed the comparatively benign but highly contagious “swine flu” with a difficult to transmit but deadly bird flu virus strain to sixteen laboratories for distribution around Europe. Had it not been for an overly zealous lab technician, thousands of people would have died.
Given the sort of protocols involved with preparing vaccines, it is highly unlikely, according to Sister, that this “pandemic” cocktail was an accident.
Furthermore, she explains that in case of a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) “can legally bind member countries to vaccinate all or part of their population. The governments of these countries would be obliged then to impose fines or other penalties for individuals who refuse to be vaccinated.” As WHO recently altered the definition of pandemic from “an infection of global proportions and with a high mortality” to simply “an infection of global proportions,” Sister concludes “there are interests at stake [that] are not [seeking] the good of the population.”
Sister Forcades is urging citizens to oppose government-mandated flu vaccinations – which could happen if the flu alert were raised by the World Health Organization to the level of a “pandemic” – and to insist that compensation is available to anyone harmed by the vaccines.
Are Sister Forcades’ concerns to be given credence? Despite sterling academic and professional credentials, she is a feminista – someone espousing liberation theology as applied to women’s issues. Specifically, while Spain wrestled with its national soul over abortion recently, Sister was publicly chastened by the Vatican for her position that a mother can decide whether her pre-born baby lives or dies: “God has placed the life of the fetus while it is not viable in the hands of its mother [...] Because of this intimate link of the mother and the child while it is not viable outside of her, the decision to abort is inseparable from the mother's self-determination, from her personal freedom. This intimate link between two lives means that the life of the child cannot be saved against the wishes of the mother without violating her liberty.”
Ironically, it may be Sister’s very un-Catholic positions that give her warning its greatest credibility. Pro-life groups, having observed the use of abortifacient vaccines for decades and having followed the population reduction fantasies of some radical environmentalists, know all too well that there are factions capable of developing and distributing biological destruction for the “greater good.” When people with “other” perspectives observe the same problem, it must give one pause.
Stephanie Block is the editor of the New Mexico-based Los Pequenos newspaper and a founder of the Catholic Media Coalition.
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