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Homeland Security Blueprint for Pandemic Lockdowns Written in 2007 Under
President G.W. Bush
The document amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the U.S.,
abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and
constitutional law.

by Jeffrey A. Tucker
JULY 11, 2024
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We’ve just come across a document hosted by the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, posted in March 2023, but written in 2007, that
amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the U.S., abolishing
anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and constitutional law.

It is right there in plain sight for anyone curious enough to dig.

There is nothing in it that you haven’t already experienced with
lockdowns. What makes it interesting are the participants in the forging
of the plan, which is pretty much the whole of corporate America as it
stood in 2007. It was a George W. Bush initiative.

The conclusions are startling:

“Quarantine is a legally enforceable declaration that a government body
may institute over individuals potentially exposed to a disease, but who
are not symptomatic.

“If enacted, Federal quarantine laws will be coordinated between CDC
[Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention] and State and local
public health officials, and, if necessary, law enforcement personnel.

“The government may also enact travel restrictions to limit the movement
of people and products between geographic areas in an effort to limit
disease transmission and spread. Authorities are currently reviewing
possible plans to curtail international travel upon a pandemic’s
emergence overseas.

“Limiting public assembly opportunities also helps limit the spread of
disease. Concert halls, movie theaters, sports arenas, shopping malls,
and other large public gathering places might close indefinitely during
a pandemic — whether because of voluntary closures or government-imposed
closures.

“Similarly, officials may close schools and non-essential businesses
during pandemic waves in an effort to significantly slow disease
transmission rates. These strategies aim to prevent the close
interaction of individuals, the primary conduit of spreading the
influenza virus.

“Even taking steps such as limiting person-to-person interactions within
a distance of three feet or avoiding instances of casual close contact,
such as shaking hands, will help limit disease spread.”

There we have it: the pandemic plans. They once seemed abstract. In
2020, they became very real. Your rights were deleted. No more freedom
even to have house guests. In those days, the rule was to enforce only
three feet of distance rather than six feet of distance, neither of
which had any basis in science.

Indeed, the actual scientific literature even at that time recommended
against any physical interventions designed to limit the spread of
respiratory viruses. They were known not to work. The entire profession
of public health accepted that.

Therefore, for many years before lockdowns wrecked economic functioning,
there had been two parallel tracks in operation, one
intellectual/academic and one imposed by state/corporate managers. They
had nothing to do with each other.

This situation persisted for the better part of 15 years. Suddenly in
2020, there was a reckoning, and the state/corporate managers won it.
Seemingly out of nowhere, liberty as we have long known it was gone.

Back in 2005, I first came across a Bush administration scheme, an early
draft of the above, that would have ended freedom as we know it. It was
a scheme for combating the bird flu, which officials back then imagined
would involve universal quarantines, business and event closures, travel
restrictions and more.

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I wrote:

“Even if the flu does come, and taxpayers have coughed up, the
government will surely have a ball imposing travel restrictions,
shutting down schools and businesses, quarantining cities, and banning
public gatherings.

“It is a serious matter when the government purports to plan to abolish
all liberty and nationalize all economic life and put every business
under the control of the military, especially in the name of a bug that
seems largely restricted to the bird population. Perhaps we should pay
more attention. Perhaps such plans for the total state ought to even
ruffle our feathers a bit.”

For years I wrote about this topic, trying to get others interested. It
was all there in black and white. At the drop of a hat, under the guise
of a pandemic that only state managers can declare, real or drummed up,
freedom itself could be abolished.

These plans were never legislated, debated or publicly discussed. They
were simply posted as the result of various consultations with experts,
who worked out their totalitarian fantasies as if scripting a Hollywood
film.

The 2007 blueprint is more explicit than anything I’ve seen.

It comes from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), which
“includes executive leaders from the private sector and state/local
government who advise the White House on how to reduce physical and
cyber risks and improve the security and resilience of the nation’s
critical infrastructure sectors. The NIAC is administered on behalf of
the President in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act
under the authority of the Secretary of the US Department of Homeland
Security.”

And who sat on this committee in 2007 that decided that governments “may
close schools and non-essential businesses?” Let us see.

Edmund G. Archuleta, general manager of El Paso Water Utilities.
Alfred R. Berkeley III, chairman and CEO of Pipeline Trading Group LLC
and former president and vice chairman of NASDAQ.
Rebecca F. Denlinger, fire chief of Cobb County Fire & Emergency
Services, in Georgia.
Gilbert G. Gallegos, retired police chief of the Albuquerque Police
Department, in New Mexico.
Martha H. Marsh, president and CEO of Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
James B. Nicholson, president and CEO of PVS Chemical Inc.
Erle A. Nye, chairman emeritus, TXU Corp., NIAC chairman.
Bruce A. Rohde, chairman and CEO emeritus of ConAgra Foods Inc.
John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec Corporation.
Brent Baglien, ConAgra Foods Inc.
David Barron, Bell South.
Dan Bart, Telecommunications Industry Association.
Scott Blanchette, Healthways.
Donna Burns, Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
Rob Clyde, Symantec Corporation.
Scott Culp, Microsoft.
Clay Detlefsen, International Dairy Foods Association.
Dave Engaldo, The Options Clearing Corporation.
Courtenay Enright, Symantec Corporation.
Gary Gardner, American Gas Association.
Bob Garfield, American Frozen Foods Institute.
Joan Gehrke, PVS Chemical Inc.
Sarah Gordon, Symantec.
Mike Hickey, Verizon.
Ron Hicks, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
George Hender, The Options Clearing Corporation.
James Hunter, City of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Emergency Management.
Stan Johnson, North American Electric Reliability Council.
David Jones, El Paso Corporation.
Inspector Jay Kopstein, Operations Division, New York City Police
Department.
Tiffany Jones, Symantec Corporation.
Bruce Larson, American Water.
Charlie Lathram, Business Executives for National Security/BellSouth.
Turner Madden, Madden & Patton.
Mary Beth Michos, chief of the Prince William County Fire and Rescue, in
Virginia.
Bill Muston, TXU Corp.
Vijay Nilekani, Nuclear Energy Institute.
Phil Reitinger, Microsoft.
Rob Rolfsen, Cisco Systems Inc.
Tim Roxey, Constellation.
Charyl Sarber, Symantec.
Lyman Shaffer, Pacific Gas and Electric.
Diane VanDeHei, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies.
Susan Vismor, Mellon Financial Corporation.
Ken Watson, Cisco Systems Inc.
Greg Wells, Southwest Airlines.
Gino Zucca, Cisco Systems Inc.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Resources.
Bruce Gellin, Rockefeller Foundation.
Mary Mazanec.
Dr. Stuart Nightingale, CDC.
Julie Schafer.
Dr. Ben Schwartz, CDC.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Resources.
James Caverly, director of Infrastructure Partnerships Division.
Nancy Wong, NIAC Designated Federal Officer.
Jenny Menna, NIAC Designated Federal Officer.
Dr. Til Jolly.
Jon MacLaren.
Laverne Madison.
Kathie McCracken.
Bucky Owens.
Dale Brown, contractor.
John Dragseth, IP attorney, contractor.
Jeff Green, contractor.
Tim McCabe, contractor.
William B. Anderson, ITS America.
Michael Arceneaux, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies.
Chad Callaghan, Marriott Corporation.
Ted Cromwell, American Chemistry Council.
Jeanne Dumas, American Trucking Association.
Joan Harris, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary.
Greg Hull, American Public Transportation Association.
Joe LaRocca, National Retail Federation.
Jack McKlveen, United Parcel Service (UPS).
Beth Montgomery, Wal-Mart.
Dr. J. Patrick O’Neal, Georgia Office of EMS/Trauma/EP.
Roger Platt, The Real Estate Roundtable.
Martin Rojas, American Trucking Association.
Timothy Sargent, Senior Chief, Economic Analysis and Forecasting
Division, Economic and Fiscal Policy Branch, Finance Canada.
In other words, big everything: food, energy, retail, computers, water
and you name it. It’s a corporatist dream team.

Consider ConAgra itself. What is that? It is Banquet, Chef Boyardee,
Healthy Choice, Orville Redenbacher’s, Reddi-Wip, Slim Jim, Hunt’s Peter
Pan Egg Beaters, Hebrew National, Marie Callender’s, P.F. Chang’s, Ranch
Style Beans, Ro*Tel, Wolf Brand Chili, Angie’s, Duke’s, Gardein,
Frontera, Bertolli, among many other seemingly independent brands that
are all actually one company.

Now, ask yourself: why might all these companies favor a plan for
lockdowns? Why might WalMart, for example? It stands to reason.

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Lockdowns are a massive interference with competitive capitalism. They
provide the best possible subsidy to big businesses while shutting down
independent small businesses and putting them at a huge disadvantage
once the opening up happens.

In other words, it is an industrial racket, very much akin to
interwar-style fascism, a corporatist combination of big business and
big government. Throw pharma into the mix and you see exactly what came
to pass in 2020, which amounted to the largest transfer of wealth from
small and medium-sized businesses plus the middle class to wealthy
industrialists in the history of humanity.

The document is open even about managing information flows:

“The public and private sectors should align their communications,
exercises, investments, and support activities absolutely with both the
plan and priorities during a pandemic influenza event. Continue data
gathering, analysis, reporting, and open review.”

There is nothing in any of this that fits with any Western tradition of
law and liberty. Nothing. It was never approved by any democratic means.
It was never part of any political campaign. It has never been the
subject of any serious media examination. No think tank has ever pushed
back on such plans in any systematic way.

The last serious attempt to debunk this whole apparatus was from D.H.
Henderson in 2006. His two co-authors on that paper eventually came
around to go along with the lockdowns of 2020. Henderson died in 2016.

One of the co-authors of the original article told me that if Henderson
had been around, instead of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lockdowns would never
have taken place.

Here we are four years following the deployment of this lockdown
machinery, and we are witness to what it destroys. It would be nice to
say that the entire apparatus and theory behind it have been fully
discredited.

But that is not correct. All the plans are still in place. There have
been no changes in federal law. Not one effort has been made to
dismantle the corporatist/biosecurity planning state that made all this
possible. Every bit of it is in place for the next go-around.

Much of the authority for this whole coup traces to the Public Health
Services Act of 1944, which was passed in wartime. For the first time in
U.S. history, it gave the federal government the power to quarantine.
Even when the Biden administration was looking for some basis to justify
its transportation mask mandate, it fell back to this one piece of
legislation.

If anyone really wants to get to the root of this problem, there are
decisive steps that need to be taken. The indemnification of pharma from
liability for harm needs to be repealed. The court precedent of forced
shots in Jacobson needs to be overthrown.

But even more fundamentally, the quarantine power itself has to go, and
that means the full repeal of the Public Health Services Act of 1944.
That is the root of the problem. Freedom will not be safe until it is
uprooted.

As it stands right now, everything that unfolded in 2020 and 2021 can
happen again. Indeed, the plans are in place for exactly that.

Originally published by Brownstone Institute.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children’s Health
Defense.
Jeffrey A. Tucker