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I greet you in the love and the light of the infinite creator.
I greet you in the love and the light of the infinite creator.
NOW IT�S A CRIME TO MAKE YOUR OWN MEDICAL DECISIONS?
Regardless of where one is in the great vaccine debate I think most of us can agree that the
state should not have the authority to FORCIBLY vaccinate people. Additionally Americans should
understand that vaccines are good business for some drug manufacturers. Manufactures
who have lobbyists. Think about that for a second.
Nothing like an exclusive government granted license for a product, and then a government
mandate that citizens use the product, for the corporate bottom line.
(From Dr. Mercola).
Your freedom of thought, conscience and religious beliefs are under attack, so it is really
vital that you listen to the information presented by Barbara Loe Fisher in this interview with
me.
Fisher co-founded the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in 1982 and she has been a leading
health rights advocate defending the human right to informed consent to medical risk
taking, including the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices � a right that
has been severely eroded in the U.S. over the past three decades.
�If we don�t have the right in this country to make health care choices, including vaccine
choices, that impact our bodies and the bodies of our children, we�re really not free in
any sense of the word,� she says. �I�ve seen this evolve over almost 35
years now. It became clear several decades ago that the goal of public health officials
and the medical trade organizations and industry was to have everyone in the country � have
to get every single government-recommended vaccine � That is what I saw happening,
but I didn�t know how long it was going to take.�
Freedom of Thought and Religious Beliefs Are Under Attack.
For over 30 years, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has fought for your right to
make informed medical choices � a right that has been severely eroded in the U.S.
over the past three decades. 2015 delivered an unprecedented attack on
vaccine exemptions in the U.S. Similar attacks were launched in 2016, but people�s engagement
in the political process thwarted most threats. On August 15, 2016, the CDC issued a notice
of proposed rulemaking to amend the Public Health Service Act, which would vastly expand
police power to detain sick air travelers and force vaccinate.
By Dr. Mercola.
Your freedom of thought, conscience and religious beliefs are under attack, so it is really
vital that you listen to the information presented by Barbara Loe Fisher in this interview with
me.
Fisher co-founded the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in 1982 and she has been a leading
health rights advocate defending the human right to informed consent to medical risk
taking, including the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices � a right that
has been severely eroded in the U.S. over the past three decades.
�If we don�t have the right in this country to make health care choices, including vaccine
choices, that impact our bodies and the bodies of our children, we�re really not free in
any sense of the word,� she says.
�I�ve seen this evolve over almost 35 years now. It became clear several decades
ago that the goal of public health officials and the medical trade organizations and industry
was to have everyone in the country � have to get every single government-recommended
vaccine � That is what I saw happening, but I didn�t know how long it was going
to take.�
Unprecedented Attack on Personal Beliefs in 2015.
In 2015, the American media went berserk reporting an outbreak of measles at Disneyland.
By the time the media hysteria hyping irrational fear of measles and demonizing parents with
unvaccinated school children was over, there had been 131 cases of measles reported in
California and only 189 cases of measles reported nationally for the whole year.
What was interesting about the 2015 measles outbreak that started all the fear mongering,
was that when you looked at the California cases with vaccine records, it became clear
the outbreak was not about unvaccinated school children at all:
Fifty percent of the reported measles cases were adults and only 18 percent were in school-aged
children. Yet that measles outbreak in 2015 was used by industry and medical trade lobbyists
to fuel an all-out assault on personal belief exemptions in state vaccine laws.
It was an assault that specifically targeted the non-medical exemptions for religious,
conscientious or philosophical beliefs filed by parents so their children can attend school.
As noted by Fisher:
�What happened in 2015 was unprecedented in terms of the numbers of bills that were
introduced in the states to take away non-medical vaccine exemptions. There were over 100 bills
introduced. There was an assault in at least 11 states to take away the exemptions.
[P]eople signed up for our [NVIC] Advocacy Portal online and we helped them to preserve
the exemption in nine states. But we lost California, which was a huge loss because
that�s the biggest state.
The personal belief exemption was eliminated and it took out both the religious and the
philosophical exemption in one fell swoop.
We have a 94 to 97 percent, sometimes almost 100 percent, vaccine coverage rate with federally
recommended vaccines in the United States � [Yet] in 2015 we saw the most vicious
assault I have ever seen on parents who take exemptions or who don�t give their children
all of the vaccines.
There were calls for these parents to be charged with child medical neglect, for them to be
publicly identified and humiliated online, for them to be sued and for them to be jailed.
At the same time, we saw an assault on doctors; doctors who were critical of vaccine safety,
doctors who were giving children medical vaccine exemptions, doctors who were taking care of
children who were not fully vaccinated. The rhetoric was over the top in terms of viciousness
in 2015.
Again, how many measles cases did we see in America? One hundred wighty-nine cases of
measles. Not one death, not one injury, that I�ve seen, was reported.�
Your Involvement Protected Health Rights in 2016.
This year, yet another 100 vaccine related bills were introduced and most tried to either
add more vaccines to state mandates or restrict or eliminate vaccine exemptions.
The NVIC opposed about 70 percent of them. Fortunately, only eight of those bills were
actually passed this year, and none of the bills to eliminate vaccine exemptions passed.
The reason for this, Fisher says, is because people saw what happened in 2015 and started
to get much more involved in the political process in 2016.
Whenever NVIC put out an Action Alert through the online NVIC Advocacy Portal, more parents,
grandparents, health care professionals and other concerned citizens personally contacted
their state legislators and showed up for committee meetings and public hearings to
make their concerns known.
It is so important for you to know that you can make a difference when you take action
to protect your freedom and, together, we are making a difference. This can be seen
from the fact that many bad vaccine bills were defeated this year because people stood
up for their rights.
I want to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to all you who worked with NVIC
and participated in the legislative process in your states this year. Yes, some battles
were still lost, but it is through persistence that we can collectively make a huge difference.
�It�s the only reason we didn�t get the medical and religious [vaccine] exemption
taken away in Virginia this year,� Fisher says. �The only reason was because people
got energized and showed up.�
Public Health Officials Militarize Vaccine System Through Rule Making.
Unfortunately, because we�ve been successful in stopping these state bills trying to take
away your freedom, public health officials are now starting to invoke rulemaking authority
to bypass the democratic process altogether.
Rulemaking authority is given by Congress to federal legislators, and given by state
legislators to the people who operate government and government employees.
On August 15, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Notice
of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in the Federal Register to amend the Public Health Service
Act, which governs public health law. We warned you about this several months ago in this
newsletter.
What the CDC wants to do is expand the use of police power to detain and involuntarily
quarantine you if you are traveling by airplane into the U.S. If you have a cough, rash, low-grade
fever or other minor symptoms of illness, they want to enlist airline personnel to report
you to the CDC.
Then, if public health officials think you might be infected with or could get infected
with measles or another communicable disease, they want the legal authority to apprehend
and:
Detain you for 72 hours without access to an attorney to appeal the detention
Evaluate you medically. Offer you a contract to sign that will allow
them to treat you, such as vaccinate you, as a condition of being released.
Electronically monitor you after your release.
Disease Eradication Efforts Historically Turn Into Militarized Efforts.
The same would apply if you travel between states, especially if you�re travelling
on an airline or by ship, bus or train. NVIC is vehemently opposed to this and submitted
a public comment on Oct. 14, 2016, calling on the CDC to withdraw the NPRM.1 The CDC
has not implemented this rule yet but they have the authority to do so, even though CDC
officials received more than 15,500 public comments by Oct. 14 � most of them opposing
the NPRM.
�In 2005, they [CDC officials] tried this. They got enough public pushback that they
didn�t implement. The thing I�m worried about is that we have a President who�s
on his way out. He can issue executive orders. We do not know what is going to happen between
the elections and when he leaves,� Fisher says.
�We don�t know if measles is going to be put on that isolation and quarantine list
� They�ve just declared measles eradicated in the Americas. If you take a look at the
last two years, you�ll see this progression. Clearly it has all been to set up this idea
that measles must be eradicated from the earth.
What happens when they say 'Let�s eradicate?' Well, we know what happens. There was a militarization
of the public health infrastructure to eradicate smallpox and polio. This means just what it
sounds like: It means detention, isolation, quarantine and vaccination.
I am concerned that even if we are successful in protecting state exemptions, if you have
a federal law that allows the militarization of the public health infrastructure, we�re
going to be in a very difficult situation here. What can we do? We have to become involved
in government. We cannot take government for granted and our freedoms for granted. If we
don�t hold our elected officials accountable, then we are going to have laws passed that
are going to be oppressive.�
Vaccine Roulette Before Pharma Blackmailed Congress.
A major problem today is that major profit-making industries, and the drug industry in particular,
wield tremendous influence over our federal government agencies, including the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) and CDC. Their money, presence and political influence can be clearly
seen on Capitol Hill and just about everywhere.
A perfect example is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Fisher was a young
parent of a DPT vaccine-injured child when the television documentary �DPT: Vaccine
Roulette� was aired in the spring of 1982. It was the first time American parents had
been informed that a vaccine recommended and mandated by the government could brain injure
and kill children.
That ground breaking investigative report was the catalyst for the formation of the
non-profit charity known today as the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) that Fisher
co-founded with other parents of vaccine-injured children.
Within months, drug companies declared they would stop producing childhood vaccines recommended
and mandated by government unless Congress indemnified them from liability. Congress
jumped into action and proposed legislation to restrict vaccine lawsuits.
�We were contacted because we were this new group. There had never been a group like
this,� Fisher says. �They said to us, �We are going to pass legislation to protect
the vaccine supply in this country. You can either come to the table and argue for what
you think the families should get or you cannot come to the table. But we�re going to pass
this with or without you.��
NVIC Helped Put Safety Provisions Into Law.
Communication at that time was telephones and snail mail. Messages could get out via
TV or radio, but there was no world wide web and few parents had personal computers.
Parents of vaccine-injured children had no political power, but NVIC�s co-founders
networked with families and fought as hard as they could to protect the rights of children
and families. They preserved the legal right of parents to sue vaccine manufacturers when
there was evidence the company could have made the vaccine less toxic, and they got
vaccine safety informing, recording and reporting provisions into the 1986 law � even though
the safety provisions have never been enforced.
5 Years Ago US Supreme Court Banned Vaccine Injury Lawsuits.
Then, in 2011, the Supreme Court heard the case of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. Vaccine manufacturers,
medical trade organizations and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared that
all vaccine injury lawsuits should be banned.
�The Supreme Court said, �Any FDA-licensed vaccine is unavoidably unsafe and there shall
be no more lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers.� Done. Not even if you could show a vaccine
could have been made safer,� Fisher says.
�On that same day, the Supreme Court said that seatbelt manufacturers, car manufacturers,
are liable for defective seatbelts, but vaccine manufacturers are not liable for defective
or unsafe vaccines. So here we are, with the medical trade associations all saying �no
more non-medical exemptions,� after they have narrowed the medical exemptions so that
no medical condition qualifies for medical exemption.�
Intimidation Tactics Are Being Used Against Doctors.
During the measles outbreak of 2015, doctors criticizing vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination
laws or giving children medical vaccine exemptions were publicly attacked. This year, the state
Medical Board charged California pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears with �gross negligence�
for �improperly exempting� a 2-year old boy from vaccination.
Sears gives vaccines in his practice but allows parents to make the choice about whether or
not to vaccinate their children. He has been an outspoken supporter of flexible exemptions
in mandatory vaccination laws and now his medical license may be on the line simply
because he wrote a medical vaccine exemption after a child had an adverse reaction to a
previous vaccination.
As noted by Fisher, the medical contraindications that CDC officials consider an official reason
to grant a child a medical vaccine exemption have become so incredibly narrow that about
99 percent of all children, including those who have had previous vaccine reactions, do
not qualify for a medical exemption. What�s happening to Sears is sheer harassment and
nothing else, designed to make other doctors think twice before they suggest a child might
be at high risk for suffering a vaccine reaction. Fisher asks:
�How can you mandate a product that can cause injury or death that some people are
more susceptible to having a reaction to, basically removing the medical exemptions
so nothing qualifies [and then] remove the personal belief exemption so you can�t exercise
freedom of conscience and religious belief, and penalize you if you don�t obey the law
that literally could take your life or your child�s life?
This is insanity. It�s cruel. It is inhuman. You [Dr. Mercola] opened up this interview
with the statement that freedom of thought, conscience and religious belief is under attack.
Absolutely, our bodies are under attack by laws that are punitive, particularly for those
of us who have genetic or biological reasons for having a greater susceptibility [for vaccine
injury].�
Vaccine Injuries Are More Common Than You�re Led to Believe.
Vaccine injuries are real. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, which
was created as part of the Vaccine Compensation Act, shows that about 71,000 reactions and
nearly 350 deaths have been reported following receipt of the measles, mumps and rubella
(MMR) vaccine alone since 1990.
Studies have shown that doctors and other vaccine providers are massively underreporting
injuries and deaths that follow vaccination, perhaps fewer than 1 to 10 percent of serious
adverse events are ever reported to VAERS, so the real number may be around 35,000.
Adding insult to injury, the government is not doing a good job on finding out how many
people are actually suffering serious health problems after vaccination. Even when reactions
are reported to VAERS, health officials rarely follow up on vaccine reaction reports.
NVIC�s Video Vaccine Reaction Reporting on Memorial for Vaccine Victims.
This month, NVIC has expanded its online International Memorial for Vaccine Victims by adding a video
vaccine reaction reporting feature called Protect Life: Witness A Vaccine Reaction at
NVIC.org. You can post a video description of a vaccine reaction that you, your child
or someone you love has experienced, where it will be archived permanently and accessible
to millions of people who visit NVIC.org.
�One of the things that we feel strongly about at the NVIC is that people who have
had vaccine reactions, whose loved ones have suffered vaccine injury and death, need to
publicly witness. NVIC has had, for more than a decade, the International Memorial for Vaccine
Victims. We were one of the first websites to really formalize the public reporting of
vaccine reactions. We have a vaccine reaction registry that is 35 years old.
Most people know somebody who was healthy, got vaccinated, and was never healthy again.
This is what people across the country need to understand. It can be you. It can be your
child, your mother, your sister [or] your friend. Everybody is a candidate.
I encourage everyone who has had an experience with a vaccine reaction to participate because
when you publicly share your vaccine reaction story with others, it can turn the terrible
tragedies that have occurred from vaccine injuries into saving lives by making others
aware that vaccines can cause serious harm.
You can take your story, record it on your cell phone or computer and post it on NVIC�s
Memorial for Vaccine Victims. You could save 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 1 million people�s
lives because they were so inspired by your story that they understood the truth, finally.
If more people do this, the more compelling the evidence becomes.