He could have been describing the culture wars deconstructing social orders and threatening liberty in this and other countries around the world today. Dickens was talking about Europe just before the French Revolution, which followed the American Revolution that led to the founding of the United States of America, a coalition of independent states united in a constitutional republic that democratically elects representatives to govern the people. Signed by the founders of the 13 original states, every year July 4 marks the Declaration of Independence from British rule by those states in 1776. [2]
We were the first in post-World War II America to organize nationally and raise public awareness about vaccine risks and failures. [5] From the beginning, it was obvious that mandatory vaccination laws were the main reason why parents were kept in the dark about vaccine reactions and why so many doctors either denied vaccines can injure and kill or insisted that - if vaccines do cause harm - a bad reaction only happens once or twice in a million doses. [6]
Right To Know, Freedom to Choose
This year as we mark NVIC’s 40th Anniversary, we are witnessing another inadequately tested and highly reactive vaccine, the mRNA COVID vaccine, roll out across America and be injected into babies as young as six months old - even though 75 percent of them have already had COVID. [8][9] It is a vaccine that does not prevent infection, a vaccine that has already generated over one million reaction reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) [10] that parents secured as a safety provision in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. [11]When we started this journey, we did not know that our “right to know and freedom to choose” message would stand the test of time and become even more relevant decades later, when a genetically engineered virus and vaccine would be unleashed on humanity and governments would mandate it.[12] As Kathi and I look back at the road we have traveled with so many mothers and fathers, who trusted the advice of doctors and then watched their healthy children regress physically, mentally and emotionally after vaccination, we are inspired by a new generation of mothers and fathers pushing back against forced vaccination laws. Some of them have children, who have recently joined the ranks of the vaccine injured, and others are taking action because they simply want their children and grandchildren to have a choice.
I realized then that the only way to reform public health policy and law was to defend without compromise the human right to autonomy, which is the first human right. [14][15] Autonomy is the foundation for informed consent to medical risk taking that guides the ethical practice of medicine. [16][17] Informed consent means you have the human right to bodily autonomy and the legal right to be fully informed about the risks and complications of a medical intervention, such as use of a pharmaceutical product, and be free to make a decision without being coerced or sanctioned by anyone for the decision you make. [18][19]
The Legal Right to Sue Negligent Doctors and Vaccine Companies
When Big Pharma threatened to leave the US with no childhood vaccines unless they were given total liability protection from vaccine injury lawsuits, we worked with Congress for four years to protect the legal right of parents to sue vaccine manufacturers and negligent doctors [29] and to secure vaccine informing, reporting, recording and research provisions in the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. [30] When you are handed a Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) at a pediatrician’s office during a well child visit, [31] it is because we insisted that the 1986 Act require every doctor and vaccine provider to give every parent printed disease and vaccine risk information before vaccinating a child. [32] We also made sure the Act would guarantee parents legal access to the name of the vaccine manufacturer and lot number, and would require doctors and all vaccine providers to report serious health problems that happen after vaccination to a centralized Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, known today as VAERS. [33]Congress, Medical Trade & US Supreme Court Betray the People
We never imagined that after the law was passed, Congress would do the bidding of medical trade groups like the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Academy of Pediatrics and secretly amend the law in 1987 to shield negligent doctors from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths. [35] We never imagined that the US Supreme Court would betray the people in 2011 by ignoring the Act’s legislative history and take away all remaining liability from the vaccine industry - even when there is evidence a company knew how to make a vaccine less likely to cause harm but did not do it. [36][37]A Four Decade Public Record of Consumer Advocacy
Kathi and I worked with parents for 14 years to raise awareness about DPT vaccine risks and to get a purified, less toxic pertussis vaccine licensed for babies in 1996. [43] Three years later, the live oral polio vaccine was finally replaced in 1999 by the killed vaccine that cannot cause vaccine strain polio. [44][45]Beginning in 1988, NVIC representatives served as consumer members on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC), Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV), the FDA Vaccines & Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), the Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum and CDC public engagement projects to provide an informed consumer perspective and voice for the vaccine injured. [46][47][48]
We have spoken out at health conferences in the US, Canada and Europe and in many public forums, including testifying in Congress and state legislatures.[49][50][51][52][53] We warned parents about electronic vaccine tracking systems [54][55] and the risks and failures of hepatitis B, [56] chickenpox, [57] measles [58] and rotavirus [59] vaccines, as well as monkey virus contamination of polio vaccines; [60] and about smallpox [61][62] and anthrax [63] vaccines in 2001; and about “Gardasil” HPV vaccine in 2006; [64] and H1N1 swine flu vaccine in 2009; [65] and, now, about the risks and failures of COVID vaccines. [66][67][68]
NVIC has a unique public record of defining and debating the vaccine safety and informed consent issue in the public square, [70] especially on legacy media television [71] and radio networks, in newspapers, and on websites and social media, and during the five international public conferences on vaccination we sponsored beginning in 1997.
A Pandemic Declaration That Triggered Global Censorship
After we held our 2020 Fifth International Public Conference on Vaccination: Protecting Health and Autonomy in the 21st Century, a political operative in the United Kingdom launched an internationally publicized hate campaign against NVIC making false claims and calling for the removal of our information from all social media platforms. [79][80]In 2021, Big Tech corporations pressured by politicians, medical trade and allied organizations removed NVIC from all four social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube). [81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88] It was a highly organized, politically motivated act of censorship against the oldest and largest organization defending informed consent to vaccination. That censorship campaign culminated in another attack a few days before Christmas suddenly blocking the ability of NVIC supporters to process donations through PayPal. [89][90]
This unprecedented censorship of a highly rated charitable organization, which does not make vaccine use recommendations and simply defends the informed consent principle, [91] is why I have been warning since 1994 that:
Ground zero is the World Health Organization (WHO) headquartered at the United Nations, which in 2019 declared “vaccine hesitancy” to be among the top 10 threats to global public health. [100] It was a declaration that triggered global censorship of anyone publicly criticizing vaccine safety or effectiveness. [101]
Reforming Laws That Violate Our Human Rights
The conversation about vaccination, health and autonomy that parents of DPT vaccine injured children started 40 years ago, has become the number one topic of conversation in homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals, capitals and courtrooms around the world.Kathi and I know we could never have done this work for 40 years without the steadfast encouragement and support of caring people like you, who are reading or listening to this message.
But now that the US has become the first country to direct doctors to give mRNA COVID vaccine to all infants and toddlers under age two, we know there will be a big push to mandate the vaccine as a condition for children attending daycare, schools and other social activities. [113]
The dark cloud created by fear of a virus that plunged our nation and every nation into a nearly three-year nightmare is not over yet. It will only lift when we refuse to allow those profiting from the fear they promoted to make us comply with laws that violate our human rights.
In 2020 and 2021, people in this country and around the world stood up for liberty and against forced vaccination in larger numbers than ever before. [115] Whenever the public health empire tries to mandate a new vaccine in the future, that shared memory will get in the way.
The Vaccine Culture War [116][117] has been going on for 200 years and it has always been a David and Goliath battle, a marathon and not a sprint. It began with laws mandating that all children get the notoriously reactive smallpox vaccine, [118] a vaccine that some public health doctors want to bring back because a monkeypox virus has suddenly popped up in countries where it had not been circulating before. [119][120][121]
And so, another round of virus fear mongering has begun, with the “experts” holding out a vaccine as the only solution. How many more microbes will be weaponized to keep the people living in perpetual fear of each other?
You never know how or when a small action you take will change someone’s life.
Please make a commitment to enlighten a friend or someone in your own family or community about the importance of defending the human right to informed consent.
Be the one who never has to say you did not do today what you could have done to change tomorrow.
It’s your health. Your family. Your choice.
And our mission continues: No forced vaccination. Not in America.