Turn Outrage Into Action!!

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Turn Outrage into Action - Monday, September 29th

As many of you have no doubt heard, this past week the National

Institute of Mental Health, part of the NIH, halted a study of

chelation as a therapy for autism. (Those unfamiliar with the study,

click here:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/09/17/autism.chelation.ap/index.html )

Though the study as outlined lacked the supplementation and labs

necessary to ensure the safety of the participants and accuracy of

the results, the cancellation is a setback not just for those parents

considering chelation, but for all of us who suspect a connection

between vaccinations and the underlying set of immune, digestive and

neurological ailments that cumulatively contribute to autism.

As an act of protest, I propose an orchestrated effort to demonstrate

our collective outrage as parents, caregivers, relatives, therapists

and physicians. While most political protests are limited by the

time, travel and other financial burdens of participation, I have an

idea that will hopefully allow for anyone to be involved.

I propose shutting down the National Institutes of Health phone

system for an entire day.

The morning of Monday, September 29th starting at 8:00am EST, I

encourage everyone to call the NIH main incoming line and demand to

speak to the person responsible for halting the study. (They will

probably end up eventually transferring you to public relations or a

dead-drop voicemail box, but your nonspecific request will keep them

on the line longer trying to figure out where to send you.) The

longer you stay on the line, the more calls pile up behind you. Be

polite, but firm. Do not hang up. If they hang up, call back. If you

get a busy signal, that means the protest is working. Keep calling.

Once you get through and are inevitably transferred, feel free to

state your concerns and tell you child's story: how they changed

after vaccination, lost speech, ran a fever, broke out in measles,

whatever the case. If you've already chelated your child, explain the

differences you've seen — or tell the story of other children you

know, students you teach, patients you have in your care if you are a

therapist or physician. You can also simply read the statement

attached below, personalizing it to your point of view.

Once you finally get through to a person or voicemail extension and

have spoken your piece, wait five minutes and do it again. They may

transfer you to the same person or extension, but you may also get to

make your case to someone new. Do this throughout the day as often as

you can until 5:00pm EST.

Next, send your story or the prepared statement below to the major

news outlets listed also starting at 8:00am EST. The goal here is to

inundate the networks' email servers. Unlike phone systems,

enterprise email servers typically are configured to automatically

identify large quantities of identical email as spam. For that

reason, I have not suggested a subject line for the email and

encourage everyone to personalize their emails with their stories and

opinions in addition to the prepared statement. Doing so will help

keep the email servers from disregarding the messages and allow more

to make it through.

Unfortunately, some news networks have limited email contact to

website forms only. Log on to these sites at the links below to email

them as soon after 8:00am EST as possible.

Is this form of protest legal? Absolutely.

Telephone protests are increasingly common and, as the emails are

individually generated, they do not qualify as spam. Therefore, if

the calls and emails crash their phone systems and email servers or

prevent incoming and outgoing calls and emails, so be it. As

concerned citizens, the Constitution protects the right for

a " redress of grievances " , and by extension, agencies of our

government. The emails simply inform the major media of these

grievances that they may cover them objectively. Advertising dollars

ensure the pharmaceutical industry has their position heard. We just

have to try a bit harder to make sure our side is represented.

Please pass this information on to fellow parents, caregivers,

relatives, therapists and physicians. Repost it on other forums, but

do not presume everyone reads the same websites or forums, or follows

them regularly enough not to miss this call to action. Personal

contact can't hurt — spread the word. I can also be contacted

directly by groups wanting to coordinate or media outlets for comment

on this and future efforts.

I used to work as a journalist before our son's diagnosis, so I know

how this game is played. Even as an insider, getting a message

through is difficult. One angry parent is easier to ignore than

hundreds, hopefully thousands, whose phone calls and email overwhelm

a government agency and the major news networks for an entire day.

Every one of us can make a difference. Based on the success of this

campaign, other such protests will be organized to demand answers and

accountability for the autism epidemic.

A safe, legitimate study of chelation is overdue. Prevention and

recovery are our shared goal. Demand change by taking action.

J.R. McMillan

mail@...

Fellow Rescue Angel from Columbus, Ohio

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Monday, September 29th from 8:00am EST to 5:00pm EST

Call the NIH at 301-496-4000.

Read or personalize the statement below.

Email the prepared statement and include your personal comments.

nihinfo@...

nightly@...

dateline@ nbcuni.com

health@...

letters@...

primetime@...

2020@...

nightline@...

feedback@...

foxnewsonline@...

Networks with email forms on their websites:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form.sound.off.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml

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As the parent (caregiver, relative, therapist, physician) of a

vaccine-injured child with autism, I was outraged to hear the NIMH

halted the first study investigating the possible benefits of

chelation as a biomedical therapy.

While the study itself was flawed at several levels, the continued

research had the promise of finally yielding quantitative evidence

that many children with autism suffer from related heavy metal

poisoning, often resulting from vaccine preservatives. Chelation has

been approved in the US for cases of lead poisoning but has been used

off-label by tens of thousands parents to successfully remove other

toxic metals from children with autism. This application requires

physician supervision as well as supplementation and regular labs to

ensure levels of beneficial metals are not depleted in the process.

It should come as no surprise to parents who have recovered their

children from autism that the NIMH tests as implemented did pose

serious risks by ignoring the need for additional organ support and

beneficial metal supplementation. At best, it demonstrates the

organization's limited understanding of the chelation process. At

worst, it suggests yet another example of a government reluctant to

investigate the possibility that increased exposure to mercury and

aluminum vaccine preservatives has resulted in the dramatic rise in

the incidence of autism among a growing population of immune

compromised children.

While the NIMH paints the claims of parents whose children have made

dramatic progress following chelation as " fringe theory "

and " anecdotal evidence " , the safety of Thimerosal itself is far more

dubious and untested. To date, the only human studies of Thimerosal's

safety were conducted at the Indianapolis City Hospital in 1930. In

the midst of a meningococcal meningitis outbreak, Eli Lilly seized

the opportunity to test mercury as a vaccine preservative on twenty-

two patients. Thimerosal was deemed safe for human use after none of

the patients died immediately after injection, despite the fact that

all died within two months, preventing any follow up.

The absence of legitimate scientific protocols demonstrated by

testing a potentially lethal drug on the terminally ill brings into

question the conclusion of safety reached by the preservative's

manufacturer. By that measure, the NIMH's claim that it would be

unethical to test a life-changing treatment for autism based on their

own sabotaged methodology is both disingenuous and hypocritical. The

CDC, FDA and pharmaceutical industry have in fact been experimenting

on children with toxic levels of mercury and other metals-based

preservatives for nearly eighty years.

Use of chelation for the removal of mercury has been branded

as " quackery " by agencies and individuals who deem the use of

Thimerosal completely safe. The origin of the term " quack " actually

comes from the German word for mercury, quacksalber, and dates back

to the fourteenth century. Doctors of the day who used mercury to

treat syphilis killed many patients immediately while others slowly

suffered the neurological effects of mercury poisoning. Ironically,

the term historically reserved for physicians who used mercury

despite the known risks has more recently been used to malign the

growing number of physicians using chelation to remove mercury from

injured children.

While the perpetuated myth is that Thimerosal and other harmful

preservatives have been removed from childhood vaccinations, the

truth is that it has simply been added elsewhere. The recommendation

of flu vaccinations for infants, toddlers and expectant mothers

actually increases the amount of mercury children receive by school

age. Likewise, as a full recall of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations

was never issued, the remaining stock continued to be used years

later. More than 30 million American children have been given toxic

levels of mercury exceeding the safety limits the EPA demands of tap

water and the FDA allows in food. Yet, the mainstream media remains

painfully silent as pharmaceutical advertising comprises an ever-

increasing share of their operating budgets.

As parents, caregivers, physicians and therapists, we demand an

independent clinical trial of chelation as a therapy for autism. As

American citizens we demand independent government and media

investigations into the actions of vaccine manufacturers and federal

agencies and their efforts to distort and discredit studies to

determine a link between the rising rate of vaccination and the

rising rate of autism.

Failure to act will result in greater demonstrations of public

protest, network and advertiser boycotts and harsher measures should

they be required.

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