The politics behind vaccinations.

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Vaccinations - Do They Even Work and At What Price?http://www.whale.to/vaccines/cassel.htmlby Ingri CasselFebruary 8, 2000TO: The Bonner Daily BeeSUBJECT: Vaccinations - Do They Even Work and At What Price?-----Ingri CasselWhy do we vaccinate? Good question and the first topic of VaccinationLiberation's monthly series of four meetings. Dr. Kristine Severyn, a pharmacistwho founded the Vaccine Policy Institute, spoke at the Association of AmericanPhysicians and Surgeon's 56th annual meeting in Coeur d'Alene on October 14,1999 on the topic of mandatory vaccinations.She opened her topic with the question, "how did organized medicine get tosuch a point where informed consent, a basic tenet of medical practice, getsthrown out the window, under the guise of disease prevention?" What shepresentedin the course of her talk was

a nothing less than the bare facts of a cozyrelationship between the pharmaceutical industry, our government, the CDC andour various states' health departments. Did you know that the CDC committeewhich sets national vaccine policy, the Advisory Committee on ImmunizatrionPractices (ACIP), (until 1997) operated for more than 20 years without makingverbatim transcripts of its meetings available to the public?This is the same committee whose recommendations are mandated by statelegislators. All other federal advisory committee meetings make verbatimtranscriptsavailable to the public one month after the meeting. But the ACIP (after1997) chose to make available only heavily-edited minutes and even then it wouldtake 6 months to a year to make these minutes available to the public.Meanwhile, ACIP policies were put into effect across the country while keepingthepublic in the dark.And this is only the tip of the

iceburg. Here are a few facts to consider:1) Every year, between 12,000 and 14,000 adverse reactions to vaccines --including irreversible brain damage and death -- are reported to the FDA. AndtheFDA admits that 90% of doctors won't report incidents of vaccine damage. Inthis state we've seen many cases of SIDS and children with seizure disorders andnot one of them has been attributed to vaccines.2) Every time we pay for a vaccine, a portion of that money goes into aCongressional fund called the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program tocompensate the parents of the children the government knows will be damaged orkilled by the vaccine. $800 million has already been disbursed since theprogram'sinception with thousands of cases pending. This same program currentlydismisses 90 percent of all vaccine injury claims.3) The existence of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program protects

vaccinemanufacturers from lawsuits and fuels the increase in the number of vaccinesbeing researched and mandated. A few of these new vaccines which the federalgovernment supports and is providing financial backing for are vaccines forE. Coli, stomach ulcers, fungal infections; herpes; lyme disease; STD's suchas gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital warts; AIDS; and tuberculosis.Imagine having the following business opportunity: You produce a productwhich the government guarantees to be free from liability and the marketplace isevery child born. It certainly doesn't get much better than that.....And thepharmaceutical industry currently has a monopoly on this "business". To datethere has never been an independent, controlled study which proves that theirvaccines are safe or even effective.************************************************************Ingri Cassel is the president of the North Idaho

Chapter of VaccinationLiberation, a support group which provides a forum for discussing vaccinationsandalternative healthcare options. Meetings are held in Sandpoint every secondMonday of the month, 10 AM - 12 noon, at the Four Women's Center, 518 North 4thStreet. For more information, send a SASE toVaccination Liberation, P.O. Box1444, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816 or write to vaclib. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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