Guest guest Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 We have somewhat the same here too. (By the way, I grew up in Montgomery County.) We have been getting monthly letters from our local government to get shots for our boys. Recently they have been coming in pink envelopes. (This is an escalation from the white ones, and then the yellow ones...) Luckily the Seventh Day Adventists have been active enough in our area, that the government knows it can't force us to. (so far anyway) Not that I am I believer, but I do appreciate what they have made possible for us parents who have susceptible kids. Our doctor has also recomended not getting the shots. (Apparently the brand of shots being used here are particularly high in mercury.) I think government officials need to be informed sometimes. Congressman Steny Hoyer is a level headed man, and welcomes the opinions of his constituency. He's the congressman for MD 5th district, and that includes most of Prince 's. I suspect he would also be of help in this crisis. -Allan. Vigilance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2007 Report Share Posted November 16, 2007 Call Today! Mass Arrests planned in land for Parents who won't Vaccinate Call Today! Mass Arrests planned in land for Parents who won't Vaccinate Mass Arrests Planned for Parents in land More Info Call Today! Call Today! Mass Arrest Planned for Parents Who Refuse to Vaccinate in land The parents of more than 2,000 students in Prince 's County, land have been ordered to appear in court this Saturday and have their children injected with mandatory vaccines, or face a fine of $50 for every day that they do not comply, or a possible ten days in jail. State's Attorney Glen Ivey (the land equivalent of a District Attorney) is running the roundup. He was quoted as saying, " We can do this the hard way or the easy way, but either way this needs to be done. " Last year 50 parents were rounded up in Washington DC, now it is thousands in land. What ever happened to, " Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. " Is this America in 2007? Or Moscow in 1935? This is a issue of national importance: Call State's Attorney for Prince 's County Glen F. Ivey and tell him to read the Constitution and stop these mass arrests. He is an elected official and remind him that even if you can't vote in his district you can send a check to whoever runs against him. State's Attorney, Glen F. Ivey Courthouse 14735 Main Street Upper Marlboro, MD 20772-3050 Fax: And call land Governor O'Malley and demand that these police state tactics stop. Office of the Governor 100 State Circle polis, land 21401-1925 FAX: Most of the students are middle-schoolers who have not complied with a new state mandate to get hepatitis-B or chicken pox boosters. Two of the most questionable mandated shots in the American vaccine schedule. Beginning in the early 90s most children in the United States were given at birth a hepatitis-B vaccine. This shot contained a quantity of mercury vastly in excess of the maximum exposure limits set for adults. Hepatitis-B is transmitted from a mother to a child during birth if the mother is infected. After that it is transmitted via the exchange of bodily fluids or sharing needles for intravenous drug use. The middle-schoolers in land have virtual no chance of contracting hepatitis-B unless they are having unprotected sex or are mainlining heroin. Several years after hepatitis-B was mandated the vaccine industry revealed that the shot loses most of it's efficacy by the time a child is seven which lead to the requirement for a booster. The United States is the only country in the world that requires the chicken pox (varicella) vaccine. Other countries have assessed it and determined that chicken pox is too mild of a disease and the chicken pox shot to ineffective to justify the huge expenditure needed to mandate a shot. As with the hepatitis-b, several years after the shot became mandated the vaccine industry revealed that it too diminishes in effectiveness over time and boosters are now mandate in many states. The failure to contract wild chicken pox as a child makes a person far more susceptible to the disease shingles as an adult. Shingles is generally considered a far more serious disease than chicken pox. It is acknowledged by the vaccine industry that the widespread use of the chicken pox vaccine will lead to an epidemic of shingles. Merck, the developer of the chicken pox vaccine now has a vaccine for shingles as well. The chicken pox shot has such marginal value, even by the very low standards of the American vaccine industry, that the only way the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the federal board comprised of vaccine industry representatives that determines the mandatory schedule in the United States, could only justify its use by making an economic argument that it would prevent parents from losing time from work and therefore was justified on an economic, not medical basis. And now we have parents being thrown in jail so that they don't miss time from work. Act now! It could be you next time! If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us, please click here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.25/1118 - Release Date: 11/8/2007 9:29 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 here's an article about this. Back to Story - Help Parents ordered to court for kids' shots By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago Hundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. The get-tough policy in the Washington suburbs of Prince 's County was one of the strongest efforts made by any U.S. school system to ensure its youngsters receive their required immunizations. Two months into the school year, school officials realized that more than 2,000 students in the county still didn't have the vaccinations they were supposed to have before attending class. So Circuit Court Judge C. Philip Nichols ordered parents in a letter to appear at the courthouse Saturday and either get their children vaccinated on the spot or risk up to 10 days in jail. They could also provide proof of vaccination or an explanation why their kids didn't have them. By about 8:30 a.m., the line of parents stretched outside the courthouse in the county on the east side of Washington. Many of them complained that their children already were properly immunized but the school system had misplaced the records. They said efforts to get the paperwork straightened out had been futile. " It was very intimidating, " Territa Wooden of Largo said of the letter. She said she presented the paperwork at the courthouse Saturday and resolved the matter. " I could be home asleep. My son had his shots, " said Veinell Dickens of Upper Marlboro, who also blamed errant paperwork. Aloma of Fort Washington brought her children, Delontay and Taron, in 10th and 6th grade, for their hepatitis shots. She said she had been trying to get the vaccinations for more than a month, since the school system sent a warning letter. She had an appointment for Monday, but came to the courthouse to be safe. " It was very heavy handed, " she said of the county's action. " From that letter, it sounded like they were going to start putting us in jail. " School officials deemed the court action a success. School system spokesman White said the number of children lacking vaccinations dropped from 2,300 at the time the judge sent the letter to about 1,100 Friday. Hundreds more were expected to be in compliance after Saturday's session. Officials said they did not know how many students got shots Saturday and how many merely had paperwork problems. It was also unclear how many claimed medical or religious exemptions to the requirement. White said the school system, with about 132,000 students, has been trying for two years to get parents to comply with state law. That law allows children to skip vaccines if they have a medical or religious exemption. land, like all states, requires children to be immunized against several childhood illnesses including polio, mumps and measles. In recent years, it also has required that students up to high school age be vaccinated against hepatitis B and chicken pox. Nichols said nobody actually came before him Saturday, but he was there if any parent asked to see him. The judge noted the unhappy looks of some of the kids in line waiting for vaccinations. " It's cute. It looks like their parents are dragging them to church, " Nichols said. Any children who still lack immunizations could be expelled. Their parents could then be brought up on truancy charges, which can result in a 10-day jail sentence for a first offense and 30 days for a second. Prince 's State's Attorney Glenn Ivey couldn't say Saturday whether he would prosecute parents who fail to comply. " We have to sit down with school and health services, " he said. " We haven't ruled anything out. We need to figure out where we stand. " Several organizations opposed to mass vaccinations demonstrated outside the courthouse. While the medical consensus is that vaccines are safe and effective, some people blame immunizations for a rise in autism and other medical problems. " People should have a choice " in getting their children immunized, said Frohman, representing a physicians' group opposed to vaccines. > > We have somewhat the same here too. > (By the way, I grew up in Montgomery County.) > We have been getting monthly letters from our > local government to get shots for our boys. > Recently they have been coming in pink envelopes. > (This is an escalation from the white ones, and then > the yellow ones...) Luckily the Seventh Day Adventists > have been active enough in our area, that the government > knows it can't force us to. (so far anyway) Not that > I am I believer, but I do appreciate what they have made > possible for us parents who have susceptible kids. > Our doctor has also recomended not getting the > shots. (Apparently the brand of shots being used here > are particularly high in mercury.) > I think government officials need to be informed > sometimes. Congressman Steny Hoyer is a level > headed man, and welcomes the opinions of his constituency. > He's the congressman for MD 5th district, and that includes > most of Prince 's. I suspect he would also be of help > in this crisis. -Allan. Vigilance! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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