Wakefield/GMC Hearing and appeal for funds

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A VERY VERY VERY good cause, if someone can help................

tell him you heard it from me...................so we can see how

successful this email was

Sheri Nakken

Martin Walker

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fraka]

10 April 2010 10:22

Martin Walker

GMC Hearing and appeal for funds

Dear Friends,

 

The first 'one day of the week' second stage of the GMC hearing took

place

on Wednesday April 7. This was the first day of the 'sentencing'

hearing.

Two of my posts, one written the day before the hearing and the other

the

day after, are run beneath this e-mail. The second post went up this

morning

on Age of Autism and can still be seen there.

 

I received no offers to distribute copies of Silenced Witnesses or to

help

fund the books printers payment as a consequence of my last e-mail.

I

understand this completely, my list is small and after the last two years

of

the Hearing, many of you have given money to contribute to my work on

behalf

of the parents and their vaccine damaged children. However, if any of

you

have any way of communicating this appeal to any other lists or

well-off

individuals, please pass it on. Since my last e-mail I have received

the

account from the printers, which shows that even with another generous

loan

of £1,000 from CryShame, Slingshot Publications still owes £1,300.

 

 

The two Silenced Witnesses books are presently the only organised

presentation of the voice of the parents with vaccine damaged

children,

whose case should have been heard in the High Court as a claim against

the

three vaccine companies that produced MMR. Together with Alan

Goldings

films, in which Dr Wakefied puts his case, the books are the best record

of

the dirty tricks campaign organised by the British Government and

their

allies in the pharmaceutical companies.

 

Sales and distribution of the books represents a small step on the way

to

mobilising people to fight on behalf of Dr Wakefield, Professor Murch

and

Professor Walker-Smith. If you can't afford to donate to the publication

of

the books, please use any influence you have to try and get organisations

to

buy bulk copies or individuals and groups to distribute them.

Negotiations

over price of bulk orders or new ways of distributing the books can

be

carried out via

 

www.slingshotpublications.com.

 

Best Wishes,

Martin Walker

 

To watch the brilliant video and DVD, Selective Hearing: Brian Deer and

the

GMC

Buy a copy of Silenced Witnesses Vol II - a copy comes with the book, or

go

to:

 

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ziggy/videos/1/

To view Dr Andrew Wakefield explaining his side of the attack on him

by the

GMC, Dr Wakefield in his own words go to:

 

http://goldenhawkprojects.blogspot.com/

To see posts on Age of Autism go to:

 

http://www.ageofautism.com/

I can now be contacted on Facebook as well as through my web site

at:

 

http://www.slingshotpublications.com

 

 

Dr Andrew Wakefield and The Never Ending Story

 

The overwhelming power of the media sometimes gets under our skin, but

we

nevertheless remain gluttonous recipients of the messages. Truth

becomes

completely irrelevant. We can freely say there is no truth. In the place

of

truth, we consume ideas from a huge marketplace of messages and

narratives

that we believe in without any immediate experience or judgment as to

their

truthfulness. As Goebbels might say today, " If you repeat the

message

frequently enough it becomes the truth " .

Aleksandar Maãaðev on Goebbels

 

When in 2007, I attended the first day of Dr Andrew Wakefield's

General

Medical Council (GMC) Fitness to Practice Hearing, Miss Smith the senior

GMC

prosecutor, stated quite clearly that the Hearing would last around

three

months. Now in April 2010 the GMC is about to begin the discussion

of

'retribution'. Although most of the media, including rabid pharma shills

on

their blog sites, profess the view that by the end of this week the GMC

will

be concluding it's deliberations, even the most casual observer will

have

picked up the fact that this part of the Hearing will last another two

and a

half months, ending some time in June or July.

 

The

hearing, apart from becoming the longest quasi judicial

hearing in history, has cost Britain's doctors between four and ten

million

pounds sterling. Its duration, its cost, and the relentless

pharmagov

propaganda campaign that has accompanied it have distracted the public

gaze

from vitally important issues such as: the only person in Britain,

to

complain to the GMC about the three doctors on trial was the Sunday

Times

journalist Brian Deer; the Association of British Pharmaceutical

Industries

(ABPI) played a part in putting the complaint to the GMC; the Chair of

the

Panel hearing the complaint had shares in Glaxo Smith Kline the

vaccine

manufacturers; in 1993 a group of parents began preparing a legal

claim

against three companies of vaccine producers - this case was destroyed

by

the British government in 2003, when legal aid was withdrawn; the

Urabe

strain MMR vaccine, introduced by the UK government even when they knew

it

could be damaging, was withdrawn by the government in 1992 without a

word

about compensation for the many children they had seriously damaged;

finally

the prosecution in the Hearing has lied for two and a half years about

the

Lancet paper, saying that it was the result of a research project,

that

entailed experiments on autistic children, carried out without

research

ethical committee approval, when in fact it was a case-review paper

citing

12 children who attended the Royal Free Hospital and were tested

entirely

for clinical-diagnostic reasons.

 

All

the discussion in the Hearing over the next two and a half

months will now be predicated on the already 'proved' guilt and

dishonesty

of the three defendants. No new evidence will be introduced and there

will

be no collective protest about the January verdict or it's aftermath,

by

either the defendants or their lawyers. In fact their lawyers,

although

reeling in shock from the Panels 'misreading' of the evidence are now

giving

the usual gilt-edged reassurances that everything will be fine on appeal

-

another year down the line. A statement that is a euphemism for 'We're

sorry

we messed up, but there is still some possibility of justice and

definitely

still money in the bank for us'. There is of course, no possibility of

a

resurrection of Dr Wakefield's character or his scientific career.

Not

solely the Hearing but as well the insidious campaign organised by the

New

Labour government, the pharmaceutical industry and the paediatric

establishment, has seen to that.

 

I

attended every day, bar one or two, of Part One of the almost

three year hearing. I sat in the Hearing room and I reported back on

every

day, for the parents of vaccine damaged children. During all this time,

my

core view of the circus never wavered. The hearing, I was sure, was a

show

trial staged over a protracted period, to protect the governments

vaccine

programme, ensure pharmaceutical profits and perhaps with the darker

programme of making invisible, in Britain at least, all vaccine

damage.

 

The

idea of a government that can make invisible over 2,000

damaged children for the sake of profit and expediency, will always

appear

bewildering to those who believe in the kind of democracy that we

are

supposed to have in the UK and the US. Those of us living in

representative

democracies, are however, facing a new and very frightening phenomena.

While

in all previous vaccine controversies in the UK, such as those in

the

nineteen seventies over whooping cough vaccine, there always appeared

a

degree of intellectual honesty on the part of those scientists and

politicians involved; now those who dissent are truly up against the

wall.

In our new corporate society there is to be no mention at all of

vaccine

damage - it is verboten, it no longer exists.

 

I am

really glad to see that Dr Wakefield is now issuing

statements about the 'political' nature of the whole hearing, and the

two

decade long assault on his character and reputation. He is an

amazingly

strong individual with a cast-iron and very English belief in

ethics, the

idea of public service, and a deep rooted emotional empathy with

patients

and parents. Although it's difficult, given the dedicated and very

able

nature of Professor Simon Murch and Professor Walker-Smith, we might

be

slightly critical of both them and their counsel for refusing to

even

consider the political lessons of this affair.

 

For

me, the idea of sitting through another two and a half

months of the lawyers conceding like dashboard 'nodding dogs', the guilt

of

their clients, while pocking their fees would I'm afraid be too rich for

my

constitution. Equally the idea of parents and families whose lives

are

already full and traumatised, being sucked into increasing physical

protest

against the Hearing inside the GMC itself, unaided by any professionals

or

eminent figures is very worrying. This situation was one of the only ones

I

have ever met in my life of para-legal campaigning work, where it might

be

suggested that had the defendants stuck together, had their lawyers

stood

with them and had they boycotted the proceedings while continuing a

very

public collective campaign against the GMC, a victory might just have

been

possible .

 

Nevertheless, the parents and the doctors still need support.

For my part I am continuing with the production of Silenced Witnesses

Vol

III, these books, written by the parents, that I have edited and

published

are emerging as the clear voice of the parents. As well, we must all

keep

going back to the beginning, to an analysis of the Urabe strain MMR

vaccination and the 1998 Lancet paper. I have to say, that even after

almost

40 years of consistent political campaigning, I am staggered by the

lies,

distortion, propaganda and disinformation that have disguised the

case-review paper that became the centre of the GMC prosecution. All

of

which goes to support the fact that Britain now has a corporate

government

that increasingly sails close to fascism.

 

The

GMC hearing brings to mind the quotation wrongly attributed

to Goebbels, 'The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed,' and

exactly

fits my perception of other of his quotes, such as; 'Propaganda must

label

events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans' (consider the

term

'maverick' to describe Dr Wakefield) and Goebbels definitive statement,

that

could have been a reflection on the constant reports of dangerous

measles

outbreaks in Britain; 'Propaganda to the home front must create an

optimum

anxiety level'

 

For my entire report of the GMC Hearing, readers can go to:

 

http://www.cryshame.com

For my essays, The Complainant and An Interest in Conflict readers

can go

to:

 

http://www.slingshotpublications.com

For my articles and essays following the 'verdict' in January 2010

readers

can go to:

 

http://ageofautism.com (scroll down left hand edge of page to Dr

Andrew

Wakefield)

For the investigative writing of John Stone about the case of Dr

Wakefield

do the same.

To order volume I or volume II of Silenced Witnesses go to:

 

http://slingshotpublications.com

To watch the brilliant video and DVD, Selective Hearing: Brian Deer

and the

GMC Buy a copy of Silenced Witnesses Vol II - a copy comes with the book,

or

go to:

 

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ziggy/videos/1/

To view Dr Andrew Wakefield explaining his side of the attack on him

by the

GMC, Dr Wakefield in his own words go to:

 

http://goldenhawkprojects.blogspot.com/

If you want to know about Joseph Geobbels the father of post-modern

media go

to:

 

http://www.goebbels.info/goebbels-author.htm

 

* * *

 

Return to the House of Lies

 

God gave me a mind that is my own,

a mind that has not been mortgaged to the opinion

of any man or set of men, a mind

that I was to use and not surrender.

 

Thomas Francis Meagher 1846. (1)

 

Chief Prosecutor Smith, yesterday asked for the most severe sanction to

be

levied against Dr Wakefield and Professor Walker-Smith, in the

resumed

second part of the GMC Fitness to Practice Hearing taking

place in London.

 

 

The

day was quiet outside the building. Where on previous first

days there had been crowds of parents, there were now only two

journalists

self censured in a small railed paddock. Inside, the cavernous glass

building there was no doubt that they were expecting trouble. Having

seen

the television film of the revolution in Kyrgyzstan and recognising

the

similarities in their corrupt judicial procedures, the GMC had

employed

security guards who sat guarding the door to the Hearing and public

gallery.

 

 

As

expected Miss Smith called for the 'erasure' of Dr Wakefield

from the Medical Register due to the number and severity of the charges

that

accounted singularly and cumulatively as Serious Professional

Misconduct.

Despite the fact that Professor Walker-Smith has been retired for some

years

after having been one of the most respected European paediatric

gastroenterologists and despite the fact that he had only seen children

for

clinical reasons and despite the fact that he carried no 'invasive

procedures' on any of the children in the Lancet paper, Smith also

called

for his erasure from the Medical Register.

 

In her

Machiavellian manner Smith suggested that to give

Walker-Smith a lesser sentence would leave children at risk. She

didn't

state which children would be at risk, but as Walker-Smith is now

retired

from clinical medicine, we have to assume they would be ones that he

came

across in the park or the local high street. Smith stressed that

Walker-Smith's erasure was important to assure the public that the

medical

profession take these charges seriously. What of course she didn't say

but

which was completely true, was that had the Panel only admonished

Walker-Smith, the public and the lawyers would have been able to ask

how

Wakefield had been able to commit all the iniquities he was charged

with

single-handed. In order to win the day, Smith has always had to

brand

Wakefield and Walker-Smith with the same iron.

This is ironic considering that both defendants had many evident

disagreements and some disliking for each other.

 

Smith

suggested that Prof. Murch whilst subordinate to Prof.

Walker-Smith might have used his consultant status to make his own

decisions

regarding the treatment of the children. However, Smith suggested

that

perhaps the panel might be more lenient with Professor Murch and

simply

suspend him for a period if he shows sufficient contrition. Again this is

a

bizarre and dark suggestion in light of the fact that it was Professor

Murch

who actually carried out the 'invasive' procedures which were at the

heart

of the case. In saying this, I am not being critical of Professor Murch,

who

all the parents know acted clinically, at all times, with ethical

correctness.

 

In

preparing her ground Smith repeatedly referred, with the

coinage of hypocrisy that is her staple expression, to the damage done

to

Public Health by the defendants. She also kept afloat the lie - one of

the

main pillars of the prosecution case - that the children cited in the

Lancet

paper were not ill and did not arrive at the Royal Free Hospital

with

clinical symptoms. Those who know even a little about this faux trial

will

know that this prosecution assertion has been the seminal reason why

their

parents were never called to give evidence. In effect, Smith has spent

two

and a half years accusing the parents of vaccine damaged children,

of

ignorance about their children, of lying, of demanding useless

invasive

procedures, of having neurotic disorders, and of being gulled at the

expense

of their children by the charismatic Dr Wakefield.

 

The

question of why no parents were called, however, hangs like

a spectre equally over the defence council. Nothing that has happened,

so

far, has riled any of the defence council sufficiently to fight back

on

behalf of their clients. Nothing, it seems, dampens their essentially

cheery

disposition while the lives and professional reputations of their

three

clients hang in the balance.

 

Brian

Deer, the Sunday Times columnist, often referred to by

parents as the 'little man', arrived soon after the start of

proceedings,

having presumably wanted to miss expected demonstrations. Deer, the

main

architect of the character assassination of Dr Wakefield, imagines

that

there will be pandemonium when the doctors are struck off. In this

opinion

he shows the usual low level of understanding of the parents and

defendants,

who have always behaved with courtesy and intelligence, despite

being

deprived of research hopes for the treatment of their desperately

damaged

children.

 

When

Smith wound up the morning session at 11.45, Kieran Coonan

proposed that the hearing should resume at 2.15, which would give

him

sufficient time to get through his brief submissions, about which he

was

going to seek advice from Dr Wakefield. After a two and half hour

lunch

break, Coonan confirmed that he had been instructed by Wakefield to make

no

submissions to the Hearing and that he had nothing to add to the

stinking

landfill Smith had put forward that morning.

 

The

next sitting day will be next Tuesday when Mr Miller,

counsel for Professor Walker-Smith, will have character witnesses

arriving

from America. Their evidence will take one to one and a half days

(in

Standard GMC Time [sGMCT] this converts into around two months

including

short post-Easter breaks and time off for participants to consult with

other

share-holders and stock-brokers). Prof. Murch's character witnesses

will

attend on the following Friday.

 

(1) Speeches from the dock. M. H. Gill and Son.1910.

 

 

 

 

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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