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DEATH THREATS BEING MADE AGAINST TRUMP'S ELECTORAL COLLEGE PERSONS
BY HILLARY SUPPORTERS
Published on Nov 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton supporters are death threatening Donald Trump delegates in an attempt to intimidate them into swtiching their electoral vote to Clinton.
A Christian mother from Tennessee is asking a county’s board of education to remove a history textbook that supposedly promotes Islamic propaganda to schoolchildren.The International Business Timesclaims thatthe Tennessee Christian mother is a member of an “anti-Islam parents’ group,” when the woman is specifically against Islamic propaganda and/or indoctrination — quite the difference. Every time something related to Islam is challenged, the challenger is first referred to as “anti-Islam,” and then labeled an “Islamophobe.”
Some groups such as the National Coalition Against Censorship, however, disagreed with Edmisten’s complaint, saying it “sadly reflects larger efforts to purge lessons on Islam from schools in Tennessee.”
The group also questioned moves to revise the school curriculum in the county retaining lessons on religions including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, but removing information “on the history and spread of Islam, the life and teachings of Muhammad, and the study of Islamic art.”
There is a very obvious reason why the Christian mom has no problem with Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism being taught. It’s because none of these groups are threatening the peace of the world by invoking their religious texts to justify what is often state-sanctioned violence. None of these groups have as part of the normative practice of their religion the subjugation of women, the death penalty for apostates, and warfare against infidels. None of them are seeking to impose their law worldwide through dawah, hijrah and jihad. Their religious texts don’t call upon their adherents to “strike terror into the hearts of unbelievers” globally in the course of pursuing their brutal jihadi ambitions.
If Muslims choose to practice their faith privately in peace and respect the pluralism of Western societies, this is to be commended and they are to be supported. Unfortunately, however, normative Islam is political Islam, which is oppressive, anti-democratic, and anti-human rights. A couple of examples: 14 out of 15 of the top persecutors of Christians are Islamic states; and a million British girls were abused by Muslim rape gangs. Somehow I doubt that the children in Sullivan county, Tennessee will be learning about these facts and others about how Islamic supremacism threatens their safety and security. They would likely be told that Islam, like all other faiths, is no threat at all, as it is a religion of peace.
“Christian Mom From Tennessee Wants History Textbook Removed From Schools for Promoting Islamic Propaganda,” by Andre Mitchell, Christian Today, November 12, 2016:
Christian mom from Tennessee wants history textbook removed from schools for promoting Islamic propaganda, Christian Today, November 12, 2016:
A Christian mother from Tennessee is asking a county’s board of education to remove a history textbook that supposedly promotes Islamic propaganda to schoolchildren.
Michelle Edmisten, a founder of the Facebook group Sullivan County Parents Against Islam Indoctrination, wants the book “My World History” to be “yanked from the school immediately.”
Edmisten called the education board’s attention to the textbook after her daughter was asked to use the publication for an assignment where students were asked about the name of Islam’s holy book, and to identify the five pillars of Islam.
The mom told the board that her daughter felt that “some of the assignments went against her beliefs as a Christian.”
“I would like to see parents, Christians, veterans, anyone that’s anyone, stand up for this fight. How can I, as a Christian, say that I have these values?” Edmisten said, as quoted by The International Business Times.
This incident prompted the Christian mother to file a complaint with the education board asking the latter to pull out all copies of the textbook “My World History” from all schools in Sullivan county, saying the book gives “false claims and views on Islam” and tries to “normalize” the understanding of the Islamic faith to their children…..
Some groups such as the National Coalition Against Censorship, however, disagreed with Edmisten’s complaint, saying it “sadly reflects larger efforts to purge lessons on Islam from schools in Tennessee.”
The group also questioned moves to revise the school curriculum in the county retaining lessons on religions including Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, but removing information “on the history and spread of Islam, the life and teachings of Muhammad, and the study of Islamic art.”
MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO OF NEW YORK CITY PRESSURES DEMOCRAT ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER CAUGHT ON CAMERA
TO RESIGN
Published on Nov 18, 2016
In October 2016, Project Veritas released a hidden camera video showing NYC Democratic Commissioner of the Board of Elections Alan Schulkin at a United Federation of Teachers holiday party admitting that there is widespread voter fraud in New York City. Since then, Mayor de Blasio and other leading Democrats have called for Schulkin’s resignation.
Today, the New York Post is reporting that Schulkin will not be reappointed to the commission when his current term expires at the end of the year:
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- President Obama, in Greece, said world leaders should learn from the U.S. presidential election and pay attention to the public’s fears and frustration about the economy.
Why? He never has.
How can a man living in such a fantasy world presume to tell other people how to perceive others and react to problems as if he’s been an innocent bystander witnessing these horrors for years?
Scratch that. He doesn’t think we’ve experienced horrors. He thinks the U.S. economy has been wonderful under his watch. Listening to him characterize his eight-year record is to witness willful blindness on a scale my willing suspension of disbelief is incapable of processing.
The American economy, said Obama, was contracting faster than it did during the Great Depression. “We had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression. … But we were able to intervene, apply lessons learned and stabilize and then begin growth again.” He tastelessly bragged, in front of his Greek audience, that his economy recovered better and faster than most of Europe’s. Then he began critiquing Greece’s economy, as if he is a wizard of economics.
No American politician — and certainly no president — in my lifetime has caused such destruction and suffered so little personal accountability for it.
It was ridiculous when he still blamed George W. Bush for his own lackluster economy and unconscionable deficits in the latter half of his first term. It was amazing that he kept making this argument with a straight face through the 2012 presidential election.
But why not? It worked. When you’ve got a liberal media covering your tracks and slanting everything in your favor, you can apparently fool millions.
What’s Obama Smokin’?
But Obama is still making the same arguments today after eight straight years of malaise. So how did he fight against the worst recession since the Great Depression? Well, he spent money we didn’t have like a drunken sailor, increased taxes and smothering regulations, bad-mouthed entrepreneurship and producers, and vilified the “wealthy” for not paying their fair share.
How did that work out? Contrary to his bizarre self-assessment, we have had the worst economic recovery in 60 years. So he’s bragging about that? We’ve had a stagnant economy his entire tenure in office, and he is touting it as sustained growth? Of course he is, and the media continue to cover for him.
He talks about the unemployment rate’s going down, but this obscures the reality that tens of millions have opted out of the workforce in despair. The media know that the unemployment figure is meaningless when factoring in the labor participation rate. Whether Obama is able to accept it, given what this knowledge would do to his unreflective ego, is debatable.
Obama covers his bases. He gets to have his cake and keep it, too, and, if you haven’t noticed, he remains skinny. He tells us the economy’s great; then he kind of says it isn’t. Otherwise, why would he still have to blame Dubya? Why would he have to blame the recent election results on an angry populace? Why would he say, “The problem was I couldn’t convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of (my agenda items)”?
Wait, what problem? I thought things were rosy?
You see, he thinks the main economic problem we face is income inequality. He thinks people are angry because others are making more money than they do and so they had a temper tantrum and elected Donald Trump. But hasn’t there always been income inequality? Isn’t that guaranteed in a free system? But if the people are inconsolable with envy, that might have something to do with Obama’s constant harping on it, railing against the rich.
Nope. The hoi polloi are just restless; there’s nothing to see here. “The country,” he says, “is indisputably better off, and those folks who voted for the president-elect are better off than they were when I came into office, for the most part.”
But here was the punchline:
“People,” he said, “seem to think I did a pretty good job. And so there is this mismatch, I think, between frustration and anger. Perhaps the view of the American people is that (we) just need to shake things up.”
Well, if there’s any mismatch or disconnect here, it’s Obama’s perception of his performance and reality. His narcissism makes him allergic to self-doubt, and his dogged ideology and oversize pride preclude him from admitting his failures.
This same ideology compels him to project onto others his own prejudices. He has been saying since before he was elected that “bitter” Bible toters who “cling to guns” in small-town America are just suspicious of people who don’t look like them. But that’s offensively false. He is the one who always has race on his mind, and he’s a virtuoso of bitterness.
Remember when his Homeland Security Department was on the lookout for returning military personnel and tea party types, rather than Islamists, as possible domestic terrorists?
Pro tip: These peace-loving, ordinary, patriotic Americans have had their fill of his attacks on their traditions, their worldview and their lifestyle. They sent that message resoundingly in the congressional elections in 2010 and 2014, yet he escaped accountability with his own re-election in 2012. Another frightful disconnect.
But there can be no mistaking this year’s election results. The people’s rejection of his agenda and Hillary Clinton is so severe that we are seeing a major restructuring of the electorate.
He, his media co-conspirators and the liberal punditry can blame Clinton’s flaws for this, and they are indeed part of it, but Obama’s leftist agenda got shellacked up and down the ticket and in state elections throughout the country.
This was not a glitch; this is a wave. And the longer he and his cohorts remain in denial about it the more it will grow. That, my friends, is a beautiful thing.
During a special town hall event in Austin, Texas, hosted by Sean Hannity, immigration and border security experts explained the nature of the illegal immigration problem what it would take to keep the country safe.
Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, said a shortage of ICE officers has hindered the effort to police immigrants legal and illegal.
"We've got five thousand officers in 50 states...trying to police 13 million illegal aliens, as well as the folks that are here legally," he said.
He added that 40 percent of illegal aliens don't even cross the border, but overstay their visas.
"We are set up for failure and Congress knows it, and they will not do anything to help us."
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said that agents need to be allowed to "do the job."
"What they're doing is they're handcuffing border patrol agents. They're letting the illegal aliens dictate to us what our job is. We have to end the catch-and-release program. You've got to get rid of the magic magnet that is bringing these people over here."
Judd said that Donald Trump's proposed wall was a "force multiplier" and would "absolutely help us secure the border."
ANTICIPATING TRUMP PRESIDENCY, BORDER PATROL MAY ENFORCE LAW MORE DILIGENTLY
Knowing that the incoming Trump administration will surely enforce U.S. immigration laws more stringently than the Obama administration has, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents will likely be more diligent in interrogating those caught crossing the border illegally.
While the political appointees overseeing the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP — whose commissioner, Gil Kerlikowske, reports to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson) may continue to advocate lenient enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws until the bitter end, even they know that their days are numbered. Donald Trump has won the election and there’s a new sheriff in town.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) — the union representing 16,500 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents — suggested in a recent statement that CBP managers are likely to start resisting the lenient enforcement policies put in place under the Obama administration and start enforcing immigration laws.
“They have a new boss. They know it. They need to endear themselves to him.”
“You can expect to see CBP pushing back and holding those people [apprehended for crossing the border illegally],” said Judd. “They’re going want to make it look like they’re in lockstep with [Trump].... We’re already seeing it now.”
Judd was quoted in a November 14 report posted by LifeZette, a news, opinion, and commentary website based in Washington, D.C.
LifeZette further quoted Judd as saying that the processing center at Nogales, Arizona is set to open soon, and that he expects other processing centers to open, which will increase his agency’s detention capacity for illegal borders.
He said that career-level supervisors will be more concerned about offending the incoming Trump administration than the outgoing Obama one.
We reported last April that the NBPC had issued a press release on March 30 announcing that the union was endorsing Donald Trump for president. In that article, we reported that the NBPC’s leaders, which included Judd, Kenneth Palinkas, its past president; Shawn Moran; the union’s vice president, and Chris Cabrera, a spokesperson for the NBPC’s Rio Grande Valley council, had all been vocal in criticizing the Obama administration’s lack of enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.
We also noted that in written testimony provided to the House Judiciary Committee in March, Judd charged that the Obama administration had “no intention of deporting” many of the illegal immigrants caught trying to cross our border illegally and has ordered that they be released so they don’t clog up the immigration courts. Judd asserted that that the orders were a new “catch and release” policy, which “amounts to amnesty” because it means many illegal immigrants are never asked to leave the country.
LifeZette further cited Judd’s acknowledgement that mid-level CBP supervisors do not have the authority to overturn orders coming down from their higher ups, such as one requiring them to release anyone who has been in the United States continuously since January 1, 2014. They are required to release these illegal immigrants without even issuing a notice for them to appear in immigration court.
However, Judd predicted that Border Patrol agents would be more aggressive in trying to determine if those caught at the border are telling the truth about their residency and requiring them to prove that have, in fact, been in the country since the beginning of 2014.
“We didn’t even question them [in the past],” he said. “It was taken at face value.”
In a statement posted on the DHS website on November 10, in which he noted that the number of illegal aliens apprehended trying to cross our southwest border rose to 46,195 in October, compared with 39,501 in September and 37,048 in August, DHS Secretary Johnson adopted a seemingly tough stance suggesting that his department might crack down on illegal immigration during the final months of the Obama administration:
Our borders cannot be open to illegal migration. We must, therefore, enforce the immigration laws consistent with our priorities. Those priorities are public safety and border security. Specifically, we prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants who are convicted of serious crimes and those apprehended at the border attempting to enter the country illegally. Recently, I have reiterated to our Enforcement and Removal personnel that they must continue to pursue these enforcement activities.
Those who attempt to enter our country without authorization should know that, consistent with our laws and our values, we must and we will send you back.
While the election of Trump just two days earlier may have influenced the rank-and-file CBP agents to lean toward the Trump position on tough immigration enforcement, it is unlikely that Johnson was similarly impacted. One can only surmise that Johnson’s latest statements promising that his department will enforce our immigration laws and get serious about deporting illegal aliens are but an 11th-hour effort to improve his tarnished reputation for being a champion of amnesty and establish a better historic legacy before he leaves office in January.
Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, has blasted young people protesting Trump’s victory, warning that their actions and behavior is a result of a ‘coddling’ culture.
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s show, Conway tore into ‘millenials’, branding them “precious snowflakes”.
“We’re just treating these adolescents and millenials like precious snowflakes,” Conway said.
“What’s the worst that can happen to these Millenials… that Donald Trump will make good on his promise to create 25 million news jobs?” she added.
Conway also expressed disdain for the fact that many colleges and professors are allowing students to skip classes and cancel exams to ‘protest’ a democratic election result and recover from being ‘traumatized’.
“I’m just amazed how many texts and e-mails I’m receiving. One person, of all these professors, saying, ‘You don’t have to take the test, you can get college credit if you protest.’” Conway said.
“It’s about time these little pampered, spoiled brats get over themselves,” Hannity reiterated, adding “Apparently, this is how the PC culture — where everybody’s a winner, everybody gets a participation trophy — and these liberals operate.”
“We’re supposed to roll out the red carpet for sore loser liberals because their sub-par, crooked, corrupt candidate lost an election?” Hannity exclaimed.
Conway, who is expected to be appointed into Trump’s administration, added that millenials should be grateful that they will no longer be “forced to buy” government healthcare when Trump trashes the Obamacare system on his first day in office.
“He’ll get rid of the Obamacare penalty on day one so that you’re not forced to buy government-run healthcare,” Conway declared.
She urged that Trump’s detractors are making the same complaints about him that they have been harping on about for over a year.
“I haven’t heard anything new. All of their grievances and complaints are so pre-election. We heard all of this,” Conway said.
Conway noted that ‘protesters’ should follow the lead of the Obama administration in accepting the election result and expressing ‘confidence’ in a smooth transition of power.
“Listen to Obama and Biden, they are trying to give Trump and Pence a chance,” Conway noted, referring to comments made by Joe Biden Wednesday when he told reporters “No administration is ready on day one. We weren’t ready on day one … but I’m confident on day one everything will be in good hands.”
Hillary Clinton re-emerged publicly for the first time since her concession speech looking like death warmed up, hardly a rebuke to the “conspiracy theorists” who questioned her health throughout the election cycle.
Hillary gave a speech at a gala for the Children’s Defense Fund, which is somewhat ironic given that she once laughed about defending a child rapist who she knew was guilty.
However, some of the people in attendance might have thought they’d accidentally stumbled onto the set of a re-make of Dawn of the Dead and that Hillary was one of the extras.
Hillary looked gaunt and exhausted, with huge bags under her bloodshot eyes. The Daily Mail was a little more polite, reporting that Hillary was “weary-looking”.
That’s odd given that she just had a week off and spent most of her presidential campaign sleeping or AWOL.
“Seeing her now, I wonder if she was wearing some sort of prosthetics on her face in combination with buckets of paint to make herself appear human,” remarked Chris Menahan.
“Hillary isn’t going to make it to see Trump inaugurated,” one Twitter user joked.
Her dreadful appearance once again validates concerns voiced by what the media called “conspiracy theorists” throughout her failed campaign that Hillary was in ill health following a number of falls, stumbles and other bizarre behavior.
“Coming here tonight wasn’t easy,” commented Clinton during her speech.
Yes, Hillary, it must have been difficult to drag yourself out of your sick bed.
THE REAL REASON HILLARY DISAPPEARED ON ELECTION NIGHT JUST LEAKED! THIS IS BAD
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.2
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 themeasles, 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.
Help Support Vaccine Awareness Week
From November 13 to 20, we launch Vaccine Awareness Week 2016 in partnership with the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). With aggressive efforts by pharmaceutical companies, medical trade groups and government to restrict or eliminate all vaccine exemptions, it’s critical for you to act now to protect your legal right to make informed, voluntary vaccine choices.
Thankfully we have experienced organizations such as NVIC providing accurate information about vaccine issues and working to secure informed consent protections in public health laws. NVIC’s mission is to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to defend the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk taking, which includes access to flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions.
Resources Where You Can Learn More
NVIC Advocacy Portal: Become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your state and defend your legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices for yourself and your children.
Ask 8 Vaccine Information Kiosk: Download brochures on vaccines and infectious diseases and how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms (in English and Spanish), as well as special reports, posters and web badges, to help you educate your family and friends when you advocate for vaccine freedom of choice.
Vaccine Ingredients Calculator: If you have made the choice to vaccinate, create a customized plan after evaluating vaccine ingredients.
Protect Life: Witness A Vaccine Reaction. Post a video or photo and description of a vaccine reaction, injury or death on the International Memorial for Vaccine Victims and search the database or view the video collection.
Let’s Help NVIC Get the Funding They Deserve
This charitable educational organization has been working since 1982 to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to provide information and counseling to those reporting adverse responses to vaccination. Please consider donating to NVIC to help support their life-saving mission and join the vaccine awareness and choice movement today.
