Why the rush to get a useless Combatting Autism Act when we can do better?

[Guest guest]

The Combating Autism Act as passed by the Senate has no money for

vaccine research or provisions to include citizens' organizations in

research oversight, now Rep. Joe Barton wants to take out the minimal amount of

money for environmental research, the Centers of Excellence and slash

the total amount of money. Neither version ever contained services for people

with autism or their families.

But Joe Barton will no longer be a commitee chair in a few short

weeks. Imus this morning suggested that we would be better off if we

just waited until the Democrats get power and then move ahead. I

can't see how the Democrats could propose anything worse than what

is on the table now.

Why shouldn't we just say " Thanks, but no thanks, " And come back in

January when we have a much better chance of gettting a better bill?

Why are CAN, Autism Speaks, the Autism Society of America and other

organizations fighting the current Congress for scraps when we could do much

better with the new Congress in a few weeks?

And if the Barton bill gets passed it will be much harder for us to come back

and ask for a decent bill next year. I don't get it. Can someone please expalin

this to me?

[Guest guest]

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I have the same questions that you do. I only supported the bill

because of Safe Mind's rationalization of it that is published on

their website:

http://www.safeminds.org/pressroom/press_releases/23Aug2006-CAA.html

and I think NAA was ultimately in favor of it too.

It seems to me that every time CAN or Autism Speaks states that

children are born with autism they do a disservice to vaccine and

mercury injured children (people) and allow the misconception that the

flu vaccine is safe to proliferate. My understanding is that the

majority of the funds would go to " genetic / inherited " research and

call vaccine exposure " environmental " which would appear to be the

politically correct approach even though the politics has changed.

I remember that Dave Weldon (R- FL) and Carolyn Maloney (D - NY) had

better legislation that talked about individuals and studying the

Amish. Whatever happened to that? I think that they are both still

in Congress.

Personally, I think that we have been at war for many decades, against

infectious disease, and there have been many wounded including our

children. The propaganda that we hear such as the flu statistics and

the fear instilled by people committed to the war is a real problem

that needs to be addressed just like the war in Iraq. I think that we

need a comprehensive exit strategy from this war or at least

conscientious objector status on the national level to allow people

not to participate in the war against infectious disease. Even the

name Combating Autism Act should probably be changed to the

Understanding Autism Act, unless you feel that mercury is like an

insurgent that needs to be defeated, but at that point you should

probably ask " Who sent the mercury? " and stop them rather than give

them more money.

Joe Marciano

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> The Combating Autism Act as passed by the Senate has no money for

> vaccine research or provisions to include citizens' organizations in

> research oversight, now Rep. Joe Barton wants to take out the

minimal amount of

> money for environmental research, the Centers of Excellence and slash

> the total amount of money. Neither version ever contained services

for people with autism or their families.

>

> But Joe Barton will no longer be a commitee chair in a few short

> weeks. Imus this morning suggested that we would be better off if we

> just waited until the Democrats get power and then move ahead. I

> can't see how the Democrats could propose anything worse than what

> is on the table now.

>

> Why shouldn't we just say " Thanks, but no thanks, " And come back in

> January when we have a much better chance of gettting a better bill?

>

> Why are CAN, Autism Speaks, the Autism Society of America and

other organizations fighting the current Congress for scraps when we

could do much better with the new Congress in a few weeks?

>

> And if the Barton bill gets passed it will be much harder for us

to come back and ask for a decent bill next year. I don't get it. Can

someone please expalin this to me?

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[Guest guest]

Do we really believe that the money from the CAA was actually going to do

anything more than fuel the same old CDC, IOM, FDA thimerosal two-step? If you

think about it really hard it's a cinch that Rep. Barton is a lot smarter than

we are. He knew where CAA was going and he knew how it would be spent.

Maybe we need to re-post the sixty-seven zillion tuna mercury articles again

just to remind ourselves how safe the government thinks highly volatile

ethylmercury is. Or maybe we need to see the vision of Polly Sager at 2004 IOM

waving Hg blood test results around like she was Neville Chamberlain holding the

" peace in our time " treaty. " See, it's out of the blood. It all gets pooped

out. "

Remember, once upon a time, the VSD was perfectly good enough for CDC to use it

to track TCV outcomes. In the book Evidence of Harm, we read about Mrs. Toast,

the lady assigned to run autism outcome data-sets. That's what her job was. CDC

had no problem with her doing it. Every week she ran data sets.

Then suddenly when we wanted to take a look they tried to flush it down the

toilet like the DEA was ramming down the door to their CRACK HOUSE.

It's been around seven years since the government discovered that there was no

such thing as a safe exposure level for ethylmercury. FDA, CDC, and IOM have no

intention of ever establishing a level. Probably because they already know the

safe level is less than zero.

The final straw should have been the letter written by the former first lady in

which she clearly states the CAA was designed to slam the door shut on

thimerosal and vaccine research forever.

[ ] Why the rush to get a useless Combatting Autism Act

when we can do better?

The Combating Autism Act as passed by the Senate has no money for

vaccine research or provisions to include citizens' organizations in

research oversight, now Rep. Joe Barton wants to take out the minimal amount

of

money for environmental research, the Centers of Excellence and slash

the total amount of money. Neither version ever contained services for people

with autism or their families.

But Joe Barton will no longer be a commitee chair in a few short

weeks. Imus this morning suggested that we would be better off if we

just waited until the Democrats get power and then move ahead. I

can't see how the Democrats could propose anything worse than what

is on the table now.

Why shouldn't we just say " Thanks, but no thanks, " And come back in

January when we have a much better chance of gettting a better bill?

Why are CAN, Autism Speaks, the Autism Society of America and other

organizations fighting the current Congress for scraps when we could do much

better with the new Congress in a few weeks?

And if the Barton bill gets passed it will be much harder for us to come back

and ask for a decent bill next year. I don't get it. Can someone please expalin

this to me?