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Editor’s Note, This is a hypertext version of Katherine Watt’s PDF Abstract (local PDF) produced for the conference: Entrenching a Global Health Emergency Mode: Implications for Health and Human Rights Law [1] [2], convened June 15-16, 2023, in Dublin, Ireland. Bailwick News sources expanding the original text are included in smaller arial font. The source at Bailiwick News contains a superset of this Abstract.
Further, her 23 May 2023 Laws that contradict each other is an excerpted post of the paper she wrote for the conference: Securitisation of Public Health Law: US Origin (22 May 2023, 20 pp.). The opening of the paper states:
In this paper, I describe the legislative transfer of the US Department of Defense chemical and biological warfare program, to the public health emergencies program operated by the US Department of Health and Human Services, between 1969 and the present.
The American transfer of chemical and biological weapons development and use from military programs to public health programs has occurred in parallel to, and in compliance with, analogous developments in international law during the same interval, most notably the United Nations World Health Organization International Health Regulations, 2005 (IHR), and its implementation in WHO member-states.
These legal developments present the question:
What legal recourse do victims of regulation-exempt biochemical products have, under international and domestic law, when material acts undertaken by putative national governments violate international treaties, conventions and federal laws prohibiting stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons, and simultaneously comply with other international treaties, conventions and federal laws governing public health emergency management and countermeasure development and use?
Since January 2020, acts of putative national governments have violated (among other international legal instruments) the 1975 UN Convention UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction and the 1997 UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, under the auspices of member-state compliance with WHO International Health Regulations, 2005.
In the United States, our putative national government has also been violating federal laws implementing the international biological and chemical weapons conventions (18 USC 175 and 18 USC 229), along with federal laws prohibiting torture (18 USC 2340A), murder (18 USC 1111) and genocide (18 USC 1091), through acts that comply with federal laws authorizing public health emergency management (42 USC 247d) and use of emergency use authorized (EUA) biochemical products (21 USC 360bbb-3).

Weaponization of Language and Law:
US Government Bioterrorism Program from 1969 to Covid.

Katherine Watt, Bailiwick News, 13 Jan 2023
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