She also said people who claimed the "swine flu" vaccine was dangerous were "crazy"

BELGIANS PROTEST "DICTATORSHIP" ESTABLISHED UNDER PANDEMIC PRETEXT
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The Belgian newspaper "Le Soir" has attacked the decision by the Belgian government to give sweeping “special powers” to a crisis committee established to oversee the “pandemic emergency” for six months or until July 2010 at the latest.
The special powers allow a small group of ministers and the King of Belgium to bypass parliament and enact any law that they consider “necessary” to deal with the pandemic emergency, such as compelling nurses and police to carry out forced vaccinations.
A comment from Le Soir newspaper appeared today, 24 September 2009, on page 3 under the pen name of Ricardo Gutièrrez, saying that the Belgian people were far more concerned by the arsenal of “special powers” that the federal government was deploying than by the “pandemic” itself.
It is stated that French health professionals last Wednesday demanded “scientific proof” that the “swine flu” vaccine is necessary and not dangerous, especially to pregnant women and young children.
Georges-Henri Beauthier, a lawyer acting on behalf of concerned citizen groups, is preparing to send a nine page letter to all the members of the federal parliament informing them of the risks associated with the vaccine, especially with adjuvants.
Beauthier said that politicians were reacting to a very “theoretical” risk by passing measures detrimental to civic rights.
In another interview in Le Soir, the lawyers Ines Wouters, an expert in human rights, and Philippe Vanlangendonck, an expert in medical law, said there is no justification for the suspension of Parliament in Belgium under the pretext of a pandemic emergency.
“We can see no reason in the actual circumstances today to turn Belgium virtually into a kind of dictatorship,” Wouters said.
Vanlangendonck said that there was no reason to transfer powers from parliament to an executive when all institutions were functioning, and when parliament had just been recalled, medical professionals were working efficiently and the economy had not been noticeably affected by the pandemic.
Wouters said that the government was trying to give a legal basis to illegal decisions to distribute anti viral medicines in April that have not been properly licensed.
In a hard hitting interview on Belgian TV on Tuesday with the the Belgian Health Minister Laurette Onkelinx, a Belgian reporter called the decision by the public health committee to give "super powers" to an executive and suspend parliament to deal with a pandemic was "disproportionate" in view of the fact that there were only 6,000 cases of mild swine flu in the country so far and no sign of a catasrophe.Onkelinx replied that it was a "necessary evil.""I don't like [imposing mlitary rule] at all," she said. "But it's indispensable."She also said people who claimed the "swine flu" vaccine was dangerous were "crazy" , arguing it would only be given if approved by the European Medicines Agency - but as the agency itself states in its own documents, the safety of the vaccine will not be proven before it is given to people in the biggest "experiment" in history.