A Day of Remembrance: Vaccine Injured March on Capitol Hill

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NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter June 6 , 2008

A Day of Remembrance: Vaccine Injured March on Capitol Hill

by Barbara Loe Fisher

They came by the thousands from all over the America. On June 4, 2008, mothers

and fathers with vaccine injured autistic children marched down the middle of

Independence Avenue and rallied at the foot of the nation's Capitol. Some

parents walked with, held or pushed their children in strollers while others,

whose children were too severely brain injured to attend, carried signs and

photos. They had come to witness, in one way or another, what had happened to

their children after vaccination.

The day broke hot and humid with a threat of torrential rains that would have

drenched the marchers. But then, the skies cleared and the sun came out in time

for the determined parents and their children to gather on the grounds of the

Washington Monument and line up behind Hollywood celebrities Jim Carrey and

McCarthy leading the march and the " Green Our Vaccines " rally that would

follow.

Although the primary message of the march was to call on government health

agencies to " remove toxins " from vaccines and " adjust the vaccine schedule " by

reducing the numbers of vaccines given to infants simultaneously, NVIC

supporters carried signs declaring " No forced vaccination. Not in America. " As

NVIC co-founder Kathi and I walked past the long line of families

waiting to begin the march, we and our now-grown children held up the signs

featuring the American flag and statue of liberty. All the way down the line,

the families of vaccine injured children clapped and cheered the message of

freedom we carried to honor and empower them as we passed.

And while many at the front of the line marching down Independence Avenue

chanted " Too many, too soon, " those of us bringing up the back of the line

chanted " Hey, hey, Ho, ho - forced vaccines have got to go! " with an African

American father urging us to shout louder and louder as we approached the

Department of Health and Human Services.. " Let them hear you, " he yelled. " Tell

them what you want. "

I looked at my 30-year old son, who became multiply learning disabled after a

neurological reaction to his fourth DPT shot in 1980 when he was two and a half,

as he walked beside me resolutely holding up our sign and shouting in a deep

voice " Forced vaccines have got to go. " When he was eight years old, I

remembered marching in Atlanta in front of the Centers for Disease Control in

1986 with Kathi and the young mothers of babies who had been brain injured or

died after DPT vaccination in the 1980's. We were the first generation to march

in protest against toxic vaccines and one-size-fits-all government vaccine

policies justified by the utilitarian premise that it is ethical to throw a

minority of children under the bus in service to others.

The second generation, whose children were born in the 1990's and developed

autism after vaccination, held a series of rallies on Capitol Hill sponsored by

Unlocking Autism beginning in 2000 when Congressman Dan Burton initiated

congressional hearings on the link between autism and vaccines. In the summer of

2005, parents protesting mercury in vaccines marched and rallied on Capitol

Hill. Today, the third generation knows that vaccine damage is about more than

mercury. It is also about too much vaccination: 48 doses of 14 vaccines given by

age six and 69 doses of 16 vaccines federal health officials now say children

must get by the time they graduate from high school.

At the rally podium, Jim Carey delivered a remarkable address that was also a

sweet love letter to his partner, McCarthy. He said " Autism is everywhere.

It is on every street and in every town " and he asked the CDC " How stupid do you

think we are? "

F. Kennedy, Jr. and physicians such as Jay Gordon, M.D. and professor of

chemistry Boyd Haley, Ph.D. called for removal of toxins from vaccines.

McCarthy, who is the celebrity spokesperson for

Talk About Curing Autism Now (TACA), held up the government's childhood vaccine

schedule and said " Parents need to know it is called a recommended schedule, not

a mandatory schedule. "

Unfortunately, that may not be true in many states in the future. Lobbyists for

drug companies making vaccines, medical organizations representing doctors who

give vaccines and government health officials are pressing state legislators in

every state to pass legislation that would automatically turn CDC new vaccine

" recommendations " into state mandatory vaccination laws.

This kind of proposed legislation was beaten back in the California legislature

by the education efforts of autism activist Rick Rollens last year. But right

now,

the New York State legislature is about to capitulate to the Forced Vaccination

Lobby and force children in New York to use every vaccine the CDC " recommends "

or face punishment, including loss of the right to get an education.

A rally of families protesting the proposed legislation will be held in Albany,

NY at the Capitol Building at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10. For more

information, go to www.mykids mychoice.com

I will never forget marching with parents and their vaccine injured children in

Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2008. Just as I will never forget all the marches

that have gone before during the past quarter century that parents have been

asking those who operate and profit from the mass vaccination system to make

vaccines and vaccine policies safer.

Three decades of begging is long enough. Now it is time for all Americans - both

those with vaccine injured children and those with healthy children - to

Stand Up and Be Counted for the human right to make informed, voluntary

decisions about vaccination. Our freedom and the biological integrity of this

and future generations is on the line. Without the legal right to say " no " to

vaccination, the people have no economic or political leverage to protect

themselves and their children from toxic vaccines and dangerous vaccine

policies.

The next march on Capitol Hill talking about vaccines should be all about

freedom..

(To view more wonderful photos of the rally, go to the blog Adventures in

Autism).

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/

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NVIC's Barbara Loe Fisher and Kathi marched with their children and

NVIC supporters carrying signs advocating freedom of choice.

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