Day: March 9, 2017

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In an unusual move that comes amid intensifying efforts across
America to provide what critics call “medicine at gun point,” dozens of
schoolchildren were banned from attending class in Rochester, Minnesota,
for not proving they received a dizzying array of government-mandated
vaccines. The reported number of students removed from school began at
around 80, declining to about 60 soon afterward. The only alternative to
the mandatory vaccines for schoolchildren is for their parents to jump
through legal hoops to obtain an exemption. The controversial measure
was largely effective in ensuring widespread compliance with the vaccine
mandates, but critics are sounding the alarm about the threat to
freedom and medical ethics.   

Among the myriad shots now being required by state officials in
Minnesota is one for chicken pox, which countless experts have
questioned or even lambasted as counter-productive. Also required is the
measles vaccine, which, according
to the federal government’s own data, is far more likely to kill
American children than the disease it purports to protect against.
Failure to receive even one of the more than one dozen mandatory shots
resulted in the children being removed from class, according to press
reports. Like most state governments across America, Minnesota
authorities take their cues on vaccines from federal “recommendations”
developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  

There are three routes for parents in Minnesota to escape the vaccine
mandates. One is to simply avoid the schools and homeschool instead.
Another is to receive an exemption from a healthcare provider for
medical reasons. And finally, the Minnesota Department of Health offers
parents a form on which they can claim a “conscientious objection” to
the vaccines. The form must be notarized and filed with authorities.
According to media reports, almost 400 students in Rochester Public
Schools are already exempt under the “conscientious objection” exemption
— an exemption now in the crosshairs of Big Pharma agents in the
legislature.

Enforcement of the state laws dealing with forced vaccination varies
between districts, with Rochester apparently taking the hardest line
yet. School officials in Rochester, though, argued that they had made
major efforts to make parents aware of the situation, sending out a
letter in January and another in February warning them to comply or face
consequences. The number of students not in compliance with the
mandates apparently dropped by more than half before dozens of children
were banned from school last week. Officials said they were working with
families to get the correct documentation and that children could
re-enroll as soon as their vaccine paperwork was in order. 
The increasingly discredited establishment media, which counts Big
Pharma and vaccine manufacturers among its biggest-spending advertising
clients, virtually all celebrated the school district’s controversial
decision. The articles about the removal of the students quoted a wide
array of pro-vaccine sources, but almost all failed to mention the
reasons why so many parents across America are becoming more skeptical
of vaccines. In editorials, newspapers in the state also cheered the
drastic measures, calling for other districts to use similar tactics.
When the concerns of parents were actually mentioned, media outlets
dismissed them out of hand.  

But more than a few critics in the alternative media did sound the
alarm. Writing at NaturalBlaze.com, Dr. Gary Kohls, a medical doctor in
Minnesota, suggested that disinformation from the Rochester-based Mayo
Clinic and its crony cohorts in government and Big Pharma may have
played a role in the decision by school authorities. However, he warned
that advocates for such a scheme were doing so “without acknowledging —
or perhaps even being aware of — the large amount of recent
neuroscience-based evidence from scientists world-wide that should be
modifying the out-dated CDC mandates.”

“Big Pharma and the CDC have very profitably generated and then
propagated the myth that their over-priced and very poorly researched
vaccines are both effective and safe,” added Dr. Kohl, a retired
physician who had a 40-year family practice career and now tries to
sound the alarm on vaccine dangers. “The safety and efficacy of all
vaccines has been disproven (including the 270 new ones that the
industry is currently developing and planning to market), but the word
has not broken through to the large clinics like the Mayo Clinic.”

Commenting on the decision to remove children from school for
non-compliance with the federally backed vaccine mandates, Kohl used
harsh words to describe the scheme. “Sounds like police state tactics to
me,” he said, noting that everything the Gestapo did in National
Socialist (Nazi) Germany was technically legal under laws passed by the
Nazi-controlled Reichstag. “The school board is as dis-informed as most
health journalists are on this issue.” He suggested that media outlets
may some day be accused of being “an accessory to a crime” for helping
propagate what he called the “subterfuge” of the “safe and effective
vaccine.”

But the coercive measures are not limited to Rochester, or even the
United States. Just days before Rochester school officials began
enforcing the ban on unvaccinated children in the classroom, virtually
the same thing happened across the border in Canada. According to
Canadian news reports, almost 700 students in Windsor-Essex were
suspended from school due to incomplete vaccine records. “Although the
suspensions can last up to 20 days, we are hoping students will update
their records in a timely manner,” said Stacy Manzerolle, who runs the
“Healthy Schools” program there.

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has for years been
helping to lead the fight against coercive vaccination and the
undermining of medical ethics, especially the escalating assault on the
time-honored principle of informed consent. “If the State can tag, track
down and force citizens against their will to be injected with
biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit
on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the
greater good tomorrow,” NVIC co-founder Barbara Loe Fisher was quoted as
saying.

But even as the Rochester school district’s actions drew widespread
attention, controversy surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines
in general has again heated up, especially in light of President Donald
Trump’s skeptical views. On the campaign trail, he suggested vaccines
were responsible for an “autism epidemic” among children. “People that
work for me, just the other day, 2 years old, beautiful child went to
have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever,
got very, very sick, now is autistic,” Trump declared in a GOP primary
debate.

And years before successfully running for president, he was making
similar statements. “Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped
with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn’t feel good and changes —
AUTISM,” Trump said on social media three years ago. “Many such cases!”
And in 2012, he made the same argument on Fox, saying that he had seen
people with a “perfectly healthy child” who went for vaccinations and
then, a month later, “the child is no longer healthy.” Big Pharma
minions were outraged. 

In addition to Trump’s statements, a new documentary called Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
has been making waves across America. The explosive film was made with
help from Dr. Andrew Wakefield. The British doctor first reported
finding a link between autism and vaccines in the late 1990s, before
becoming the victim of what appears to be an unprecedented smear
campaign orchestrated by Big Pharma and the establishment media.
Eventually the prestigious medical journal that published his study
retracted it, but concerns never went away.

Among other information in the film: a confession by Dr. William
Thompson, a whistleblower from the U.S. government’s CDC, who says the
feds deliberately concealed data showing a causal relationship between
the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism. Essentially, the
documentary and the experts interviewed in it argue that there is an
“alarming deception” surrounding vaccines that has “contributed to the
skyrocketing increase of autism and potentially the most catastrophic
epidemic of our lifetime.” 

As concerns grow across America about both the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, Big Pharma and the politicians it showers money on have been
waging a relentless counter-attack. Among the tactics: seeking to
curtail choice and informed consent while viciously demonizing all who
resist. California, for example, recently joined a handful of other states in removing non-medical exemptions to vaccines,
including religious exemptions. A similar scheme is being considered in
Minnesota as part of what critics have decried as an assault on freedom
and medical ethics.

And all of the efforts to use coercion to push vaccines are happening
despite the fact that Big Pharma lobbyists already convinced Congress
to protect vaccine manufacturers from liability. That means that
families of victims injured or killed by vaccines must be compensated by
taxpayers through a special vaccine court, putting taxpayers on the
hook for problems resulting from shots. Virtually no other industry
enjoys such a privilege.     

Attacks on medical freedom and informed consent similar to what is
happening in America are underway outside of the United States, too —
particularly as more and more parents begin to question the safety and
efficacy of vaccines. In Australia, for instance, almost 150,000
families were cut off from childcare benefits for failure to obey
vaccine mandates. Many European governments are also cracking down on
resistors. In Africa, numerous
prominent doctors and religious officials have argued that the United
Nations was using a vaccine program to sterilize women. 

But there is good news as well. For parents concerned about
increasingly disastrous “education” and moral instruction in schools,
along with the government’s usurpation of power over their children’s
healthcare decisions, there are a growing range of options. Aside from
the fast-growing homeschooling movement, burgeoning online schools such
as Freedom Project Academy, an affiliate of this magazine, offer parents
real choice — a good education, at a reasonable price, and without all
the federal and state mandates covering everything from health to sex
“education.”

As Big Pharma and the politicians doing its bidding step up their
attacks on parental rights and informed consent, the backlash is certain
to grow, and that means more options will likely be forthcoming for
concerned parents. Still, doctors and health experts urge parents to be
well informed on risks and benefits before making important medical
decisions for their children. 

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