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256 Sheriffs and 6 State Sheriffs Associations Saying ‘NO’ to Obama Gun Control

Posted on February 01, 2013

Sheriffs have risen up all over our great nation to stand up against the unconstitutional gun control measures being taken.

The following is a list of sheriffs and state sheriff’s associations from who have vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unlawful gun control measures. I applaud these public servants for their courage and conviction.


I call on sheriffs all over this nation to add their voices to the growing numbers of faithful protectors of our freedom. -Richard Mack

Sheriffs and associations who have made public statements committing to protect their citizens’ 2nd Amendment rights from Obama’s gun control efforts will be added. Some of these sheriffs are members of the CSPOA, but inclusion in this list does not necessarily mean they are a member.

List of State Sheriff’s Associations

1. Utah Sheriffs Association

2. Florida Sheriffs Association

3. Georgia Sheriffs Association

4. Colorado Sheriffs Association

5. New Mexico Sheriffs Association

6. Nebraska Sheriffs Association

List of County Sheriffs

Disclaimer: While we encourage all sheriffs, their departments and peace officers to join CSPOA, the above list was created to identify those county sheriffs who have gone on record to uphold their oath by having made public statements, written open letters or called our office and asked to be included in the list of sheriffs and peace officers standing against gun control. This DOES NOT mean they are members of the CSPOA

	Name	County	State
1	Blake Dorning	Madison	Alabama
2	Ana Franklin	Morgan	Alabama
3	Andy Hughes	Houston	Alabama
4	Jay Jones	Lee	Alabama
5	Huey Hoss Mack	Baldwin	Alabama
6	Kevin Davis	Chilton	Alabama
7	Scott Mascher	Yavapai	Arizona
8	Joe Arpaio	Maricopa	Arizona
9	Tom Sheahan	Mohave	Arizona
10	Paul Babeu	Pinal	Arizona
11	Mark J. Dannels	Cochise	Arizona
12	Leon Wilmot	Yuma	Arizona
13	Mike Moore	Boone	Arkansas
14	Adam Christianson	Stanislaus	California
15	Jon Lopey	Siskiyou	California
16	Tom Bosenko	Shasta	California
17	John D’Agostini	El Dorado	California
18	David Hencraft	Tehama	California
19	Dean Growden	Lassen	California
20	Dean Wilson	Del Norte	California
21	Mike Poindexter	Modoc	California
22	Thomas Allman	Mendocino	California
23	Mike Downey	Humboldt	California
24	Margaret Mims	Fresno	California
25	Greg Hagwood	Plumas	California
26	Bruce Haney	Trinity	California
27	Martin Ryan	Amador	California
28	Jerry Smith	Butte	California
29	Donny Youngblood	Kern	California
30	James W. Mele	Toulumne	California
31	Justin Smith	Larimer	Colorado
32	Terry Maketa	El Paso	Colorado
33	John Cooke	Weld	Colorado
34	Stan Hilkey	Mesa	Colorado
35	Lou Vallario	Garfield	Colorado
36	Rick Dunlap	Montrose	Colorado
37	Jeff Christopher	Sussex	Delaware
38	Bill Snyder	Martin	Florida
39	Frank McKeithen	Bay	Florida
40	Mike Scott	Lee	Florida
41	Rick Beseler	Clay	Florida
42	Michael Adkinson	Walton	Florida
43	Grady Judd	Polk	Florida
44	Harrell Reid	Hamilton	Florida
45	Stacy Nicholson	Gilmer	Georgia
46	Scott Berry	Oconee	Georgia
47	Roger Garrison	Cherokee	Georgia
48	Neil Warren	Cobb	Georgia
49	Butch Conway	Gwinnett	Georgia
50	Gary Gulledge	Paulding	Georgia
51	Joe Chapman	Walton	Georgia
52	Roy Klingler	Madison	Idaho
53	Kieran Donahue	Canyon	Idaho
54	Daryl Wheeler	Bonner	Idaho
55	Chris Goetz	Clearwater	Idaho
56	Doug Giddings	Idaho	Idaho
57	Doug McFall	Jerome	Idaho
58	Brian Brokop	Lewis	Idaho
59	Joe Rodriguez	Nez Perce	Idaho
60	Tom Carter	Twin Falls	Idaho
61	Dave Resser	Benewah	Idaho
62	Edward Motley	Edgar	Illinois
63	Mike Emery	McLean	Illinois
64	Jerry Parsley	Clark	Illinois
65	John Zaruba	DuPage	Illinois
66	Brad Rogers	Elkhart	Indiana
67	Ken Murphy	Franklin	Indiana
68	Tom Grills	Ripley	Indiana
69	Warren M. Wethington	Cedar	Iowa
70	Frank Denning	Johnson	Kansas
71	Denny Peyman	Jackson	Kentucky
72	Michael A. Helmig	Boone	Kentucky
73	John Snedegar	Bath	Kentucky
74	Scott F. Harrison	Powell	Kentucky
75	Chuck Korzenborn	Kenton	Kentucky
76	Charles A. Jenkins	Frederick	Maryland
77	Ken Tregoning	Carroll	Maryland
78	Dar Leaf	Barry	Michigan
79	Ted Schende	Benzie	Michigan
80	Larry Stelma	Kent	Michigan
81	Kenny Marks	Menominee	Michigan
82	Robin Cole	Pine	Minnesota
83	Bill Rasco	DeSoto	Mississippi
84	Billy McGee	Forrest	Mississippi
85	Cecil Cantrell	Monroe	Mississippi
86	Brad A. DeLay	Lawrence	Missouri
87	Charles Heiss	Johnson	Missouri
88	Steve Cox	Livingston	Missouri
89	Mick Epperly	Barry	Missouri
90	Stephen Stockman	Mercer	Missouri
91	George R. Underwood	Oregon	Missouri
92	Michael Dixon	Osage	Missouri
93	Randee Kaiser	Jasper	Missouri
94	Steven R. Blunkall	Shannon	Missouri
95	James Sigman	Texas	Missouri
96	Mark Dobbs	Butler	Missouri
97	Gary Schaaf	Perry	Missouri
98	Randy Esphorst	Gasconade	Missouri
99	Kevin T. Harrison	Warren	Missouri
100	Jimmy Shinn	Marion	Missouri
101	Gerry Dinwiddie	Ralls	Missouri
102	Tom Rummel	Sanders	Montana
103	Jay Doyle	Lake	Montana
104	Scott F. Howard	Powell	Montana
105	Chris Hoffman	Ravalli	Montana
106	Darby Harrington	Wibaux	Montana
107	Mike Linder	Yellowstone	Montana
108	Ed Kilgpore	Humboldt	Nevada
109	Benjamin D. Trotter	Churchill	Nevada
110	Tony DeMeo	Nye	Nevada
111	Douglas R Dutile	Grafton	New Hampshire
112	Dan Houston	Bernalillo	New Mexico
113	Shawn Menges	Catron	New Mexico
114	Patrick R Jennings	Chaves	New Mexico
115	Johnny Valdez	Cibola	New Mexico
116	Jim Maldonado	Colfax	New Mexico
117	Dennis A. Cleaver	De Baca	New Mexico
118	Todd Garrison	Dona Ana	New Mexico
119	Scott London	Eddy	New Mexico
120	Raul Holguin	Grant	New Mexico
121	Michael R Lucero	Guadalupe	New Mexico
122	Herman Martinez	Harding	New Mexico
123	Saturnino Madero	Hidalgo	New Mexico
124	Mark Hargrove	Lea	New Mexico
125	Rick Virden	Lincoln	New Mexico
126	Marco Lucero	Los Alamos	New Mexico
127	Raymond Cobos	Luna	New Mexico
128	Benny House	Otero	New Mexico
129	Joe Schallert	Quay	New Mexico
130	Joe Mascarenas	Arriba	New Mexico
131	Darren Hooker	Roosevelt	New Mexico
132	Ken Christesen	San Juan	New Mexico
133	Benjie Vigil	San Miguel	New Mexico
134	Robert Garcia	Santa Fe	New Mexico
135	Joe Baca	Sierra	New Mexico
136	Phillip Montoya	Socorro	New Mexico
137	Miguel Romero Jr	Taos	New Mexico
138	Heath White	Torrance	New Mexico
139	William Spriggs	Union	New Mexico
140	Louis Burkhard	Valencia	New Mexico
141	Tony Desmond	Schoharie	New York
142	Richard Devlin Jr.	Otsego	New York
143	Donald Smith	Putnam	New York
144	David Cole	Steuben	New York
145	Coy Reid	Catawba	North Carolina
146	Adell Dobey	Edgefield	North Carolina
147	Jerry Jones	Franklin	North Carolina
148	Charlie McDonald	Henderson	North Carolina
149	Jimmy Thornton	Sampson	North Carolina
150	Eddie Cathey	Union	North Carolina
151	Donnie Harrison	Wake	North Carolina
152	Carey Winders	Wayne	North Carolina
153	Sam Page	Rockingham	North Carolina
154	Larry Rollins	Harnett	North Carolina
155	Alan Norman	Cleveland	North Carolina
156	A.J. Rodenberg	Clermont	Ohio
157	Sam Crish	Allen	Ohio
158	J. Steve Sheldon	Richland	Ohio
159	Bob ‘Big Block’ Colbert	Wagoner	Oklahoma
160	Johnny Tadlock	McCurtain	Oklahoma
161	Roger LeVick	Jackson	Oklahoma
162	Glenn E. Palmer	Grant	Oregon
163	Gil Gilbertson	Josephine	Oregon
164	Tim Mueller	Linn	Oregon
165	Craig Zanni	Coos	Oregon
166	John Hanlin	Douglas	Oregon
167	John Bishop	Curry	Oregon
168	Larry Blanton	Deschutes	Oregon
169	Jim Hensley	Crook	Oregon
170	Pat Garrett	Washington	Oregon
171	Dan Staton	Multnomah	Oregon
172	Mike Winters	Jackson	Oregon
173	Brian Wolfe	Malheur	Oregon
174	Mitchell Southwick	Baker	Oregon
175	Frank Skrah	Klamath	Oregon
176	Jason Myers	Marion	Oregon
177	Bob Wolfe	Polk	Oregon
178	Jack Crabtree	Yamhill	Oregon
179	Boyd Rasmussen	Union	Oregon
180	Jim Muller	Adams	Pennsylvania
181	Eric J. Weaknecht	Berks	Pennsylvania
182	Clinton J. Walters	Bradford	Pennsylvania
183	Jeffrey C. Krieg	Elk	Pennsylvania
184	Bunny Welsh	Chester	Pennsylvania
185	Jonathan Held	Westmoreland	Pennsylvania
186	Ronny R. Anderson	Cumberland	Pennsylvania
187	Al Cannon	Charleston	South Carolina
188	Chuck Wright	Spartanburg	South Carolina
189	Wayne DeWitt	Berkeley	South Carolina
190	Jim Matthews	Kershaw	South Carolina
191	James Metts	Lexington	South Carolina
192	Leon Lott	Richland	South Carolina
193	Bruce Bryant	York	South Carolina
194	Jim Ruth	Bradley	Tennessee
195	Jim Hammond	Hamilton	Tennessee
196	Larry Smith	Smith	Texas
197	Terry Box	Collin	Texas
198	Joel W. Richardson	Randall	Texas
199	Jack Brandes	Austin	Texas
200	Johnny Brown	Ellis	Texas
201	Michael Cox	Hill	Texas
202	Bob Alford	Johnson	Texas
203	Earl Howell	McCulloch	Texas
204	Parnell McNamara	McLennan	Texas
205	David Medlin	Oldham	Texas
206	Tommy Gage	Montgomery	Texas
207	Dane Kirby	Fannin	Texas
208	R. Glenn Smith	Waller	Texas
209	W.T. Smith	Burnet	Texas
210	Ed Cain	Hardin	Texas
211	Cameron M. Noel	Beaver	Utah
212	David Edmunds	Summit	Utah
213	James Tracy	Utah	Utah
214	Robert Dekker	Millard	Utah
215	Frank Park	Tooele	Utah
216	Joseph Yeates	Box Elder	Utah
217	G. Lynn Nelson	Cache	Utah
218	James Cordova	Carbon	Utah
219	Jerry Jorgensen	Daggett	Utah
220	Todd Richardson	Davis	Utah
221	Travis Mitchell	Duchesne	Utah
222	Greg Funk	Emery	Utah
223	James D. Perkins	Garfield	Utah
224	Steven White	Grand	Utah
225	Mark Gower	Iron	Utah
226	Alden Orme	Juab	Utah
227	Lamont Smith	Kane	Utah
228	Blaine Breshears	Morgan	Utah
229	Marty Gleave	Puite	Utah
230	Dale Stacey	Rich	Utah
231	Rick Eldredge	San Juan	Utah
232	Brian Nielson	Sanpete	Utah
233	Nathan Curtis	Sevier County	Utah
234	Jeff Merrell	Uintah	Utah
235	Todd Bonner	Wasatch	Utah
236	Cory Pulsipher	Washington	Utah
237	Kurt Taylor	Wayne	Utah
238	Terry Thompson	Weber	Utah
239	Merv Gustin	Duchesne	Utah
240	Than Cooper	Garfiled	Utah
241	James B. Nyland Sr.	Grand	Utah
242	Gene Ercanbrack	Morgan	Utah
243	Mike Lacy	San Juan	Utah
244	Kay P. Larsen	Sanpete	Utah
245	Phil Barney	Sevier	Utah
246	Kenneth Vanwagoner	Wasatch	Utah
247	Kirk Smith	Washington	Utah
248	Ken Bancroft	Asotin	Washington
249	Tom Jones	Grant	Washington
250	Dave Brown	Skamania	Washington
251	Brett Myers	Whitman	Washington
252	Ken Irwin	Yakima	Washington
253	Mike Harper	Roane	West Virginia
254	Ken Merritt	Wood	West Virginia
255	William “Randall” White	Boone	West Virginia
256	David A. Clarke Jr.	Milwaukee	Wisconsin

http://cspoa.org/sheriffs-gun-rights/

“Last Line Of Defense” Project: Sheriffs And Chiefs Of Police

January 25, 2013johneastboroughLeave a commentGo to comments

It has come to this. Over     256 Sheriffs, as well as the Sheriffs’ Associations in   6 states, have publicly spoken out against the Obama/Feinstein gun grab. Across the country, more and more state and local law enforcement organizations and individual LEO’s (Law Enforcement Officers) are saying, “WE WILL NOT COMPLY”.

Please also visit CSPOA, which keeps an updated list and tracks related events, and the County Sheriff Project, for more news and video content.

LLOD Map – 2013-02-02

It’s a sad day in America when our so-called “leaders” are so out of touch with the principles of the Constitution, as well as the wishes of the majority of Americans, that local/state law enforcement officers feel compelled to reassure the public that even if the monsters in Washington come to disarm them, they can expect no cooperation from the Sheriffs. However, the ray of sunshine among the dark clouds is the very fact that these defenders of the rule of law are so committed to their duty that they openly declare their resistance to our autocratic rulers who have lost the last vestiges of shame and honor.

Help send a message to Washington by contacting the national police/sheriff associations, as well as your local law enforcement groups, and urging them to join the growing ranks of local/state LEO’s who promise to defend the rights of citizens, to uphold their sworn duty to the rule of law and the Constitution. Also, since Sheriffs are the ONLY Law Enforcement Officials who are elected, not appointed, they have an additional responsibility to represent their constituents.+-

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Last Line Of Defense Project

The purpose of this project is to track the current status of public declarations by County Sheriffs across the country, display the results on an interactive map, and provide inspiration for citizens to contact their County Sheriffs and other Law Enforcement Officials (LEO’s) and ask them to join their brothers in standing up against unconstitutional laws.

County Sheriffs and municipal police departments are the last line of defense against a federal government seeking to take away our 2nd Amendment rights – and the 2nd Amendment is the last line of defense against tyranny.

STEP 1 – UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE

Why bother spending your time doing this? How does the number of Sheriffs making public declarations in support of 2nd Amendment rights make a difference? Well, there are several reasons to encourage as many Sheriffs as possible to make public statements and send letters to Washington. Each letter, each TV interview, each public confirmation of the Sheriff’s support of our Constitutional rights:

• Reinforces the will of any civilian potentially wavering in their determination to resist the federal tyranny.
• Strengthens the trust between the community and the Sheriff’s Office.
• Increases cooperation of civilians with the Sheriff’s Office.
• Contributes to the hesitation of the federal government to actually go through with a ban.
• Helps to realign the balance of power between the federal government and the state/local governments.

STEP 2 – CHECK THE MAP

Your County Sheriff may already have taken action. Check the map & zoom in to your location.

• If your county is RED, your Sheriff has declared that unconstitutional laws will not be enforced in your county. Send them a “thank you” note!
• If your county is YELLOW, there has been a declaration of dissent or disagreement, but not a definite promise to disallow assistance to Federal agents enforcing unconstitutional laws. Try convincing them to take a stand on the side of the Constitution.
• If your county is GRAY, there’s either been no action, or I have not yet made the change in the database driving the map – check the table listing on this page. (Note: if the map display doesn’t look right, try zooming in & moving it around. Works best on Google Chrome.)
• Lastly, if your county is BLUE, your Sheriff has either refused to make a statement, or has stated outright that he will cooperate with Federal authorities. In these (hopefully rare) scenarios, a strongly-worded message reminding the Sheriff of their Constitutional oath as well as representation of the citizens who voted for them, may change their mind.

Last Line Of Defense – Interactive Status Map
Updated: 02/02/2013

LLOD Map – 2013-02-02

STEP 3 – GET CONTACT INFO

Unfortunately, as much as I would like to ease this process, I simply cannot list the contact information for each of the 3,141 Sheriff’s Offices across the country. Google for phrases such as “Countyname Sheriff’s Office”, and you’ll find it.

STEP 4 – GET INSPIRED

Several Sheriffs have mentioned that their public declarations of supporting the 2nd Amendment rights were prompted by their constituents contacting them and asking them to confirm that they will stand with the people who elected them, versus a potentially tyrannical central government.

For example, Sheriff Jim Mele of Tuolumne County, California, mentioned in his letter to Barack Obama that he was prompted to write this letter by multiple “compelling” and “heartfelt” contacts from his constituents.

The letter from Sheriff Tommy Gage of Montgomery County, Texas, to his constituents, states that he received “many E-mails, letters, and phone calls asking for my stance as relates to this issue” and he is “happy to provide it”.

The 5-page Position Paper on Gun Control Legislation published by the County Sheriffs of Colorado, mentions “the gracious will of voters who elect us” and the fact that there’s “little support” among their constituents for measures such as a national database of gun owners, indicating the existence of feedback between the community and the Sheriffs.

These are just 2 of many examples of how a little action on the part of citizens can really make a difference between silence and a stand on a position, the difference between a gray county marker and one that’s glowing red with pride.

STEP 5 – MAKE CONTACT

If you only have a few minutes, a quick phone call to the Sheriff’s Office could still make a difference. However, an E-mail, a physical letter, or a fax sent to the Sheriff’s Office, allows for more complex points to be expressed more fully. In addition, an actual letter also creates a valuable piece of content that can be shared on social networks, inspiring others.

STEP 6 – FEEDBACK

If your Sheriff’s Office responds, whether in a positive or negative manner, please let me know so I can update the list accordingly.

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THE LIST:

Updated 01/31/2013

Due to the limitations of WordPress, the list of Sheriffs has been moved to Google Fusion Tables.

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When I started this project, I had no idea the story was so far-reaching. My original intent was to compile the inspiring letters written by Sheriffs across the country to their constituents, as well as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and members of Congress, with the contact information for Sheriffs’ Associations and the Sheriffs’ Offices in individual counties.

At this point, after having accumulated over 200 bookmarks to be processed, as well as having created an interactive map and merged the USGIS County Boundaries data, I have come to realize that listing the 100′s of letters and interviews, as well as the contact information for the Sheriffs’ Offices in all 3141 US counties was an unrealistic endeavor for one person to undertake.

From this point on, I will focus on listing only the county & Sheriff’s name, as well as highlighting the appropriate county on the map.
The entire content of this post has been moved to the “‘Last Line Of Defense’ Project – Status Updates” post. Status updates, news stories, etc., will be posted in that document. Certain sections are re-posted here. Letters, videos, and other media will be stored in the “‘Last Line Of Defense’ Project – Letters, Photos, Videos” post.

http://impliedinference.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/last-line-of-defense-sheriffs-chiefs-of-police/

2nd Amendment March on State Capitals

 

ON the 19th of Jan. 2013 Every State in the Nation Marched on their Capital to send a message to our Government. 

We are now doing it yet again and this time Our Nations Capital. (Washington D.C.) So Make it 10 Million Strong Spirited Americans, willing to Stand and Protect our civil liberties, "The Second Amendment, The Right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". 

 

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" The Second Amendment

Saturday May 25th, 2013

The National Mall, Washington D.C.

Calling all Gun Owners and Patriots you are cordially invited to attend the first 2nd Amendment rally at The National Mall in Washington D.C. on Saturday May 25th 2013 at Noon Eastern Time (Tentatively Pending Sponsors). We are hoping to attract up to 10 Million Gun Owners/Patriots to the National Mall for a rally to show our support for the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects and insures the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

Once we have secured the venue we will confirm the date and time. This is a grass roots endeavor so any national celebrities that would like to help please contact us at the e-mail address below.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to possess and carry firearms.

^{We are hoping that law abiding citizens show up for a peaceful rally bringing signs that show support for our rights. Please do the right thing when attending so we do not have any incidents that would disparage our cause.}

http://www.gunmarch.com/

 

Freedom and Liberty In America Will Live Forever

We are in a major need to stand together in brothers in arms, in protecting one-another against foregeig, no matter of racial background, we as the People of America, last chance for a free Nation to stand up against Tyranny. This is our Country and we will not bow for any dictatorship. There is no place for Tyranny, and the People of America will stand and fight. We are a Free Nation, We will not surrender our freedoms to any Foreign Gov. or New World Order. America will stay free.

The Trilateral Commission and The Builderburg Group are Connected with the New World Order.
They are power mongers who would like to rule the world. We must Protect what we hold dear and sacret, Life, Liberty, and Land. The Constituion is our map, and our guns are our freedom.

Companies In America must stand with the people to protect liberty by using the technology made by companies to counteract Tyranny.

America is not meant for Tyranny and it will not become a Communist Country, If we stand together as a Whole Nation, protecting each neighboring state. Each State that has no protection against Fed. Gun Bans, The people should move to a state were they do have such laws protecting their liberty.

The UN, NWO, Globalists, Eliteists, want nothing but to destroy America, and turn us into a 3rd world country, we must stand together against Tyranny.   

Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines

WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID TAKING VACCINES

By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
December 7, 2003
NewsWithViews.com

Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National institute of health declared, "the only safe vaccine is one that is never used."

Cowpox vaccine was believed able to immunize people against smallpox. At the time this vaccine was introduced, there was already a decline in the number of cases of smallpox. Japan introduced compulsory vaccination in 1872. In 1892 there were 165,774 cases of smallpox with 29,979 deaths despite the vaccination program. A stringent compulsory smallpox vaccine program, which prosecuted those refusing the vaccine, was instituted in England in 1867. Within 4 years 97.5 % of persons between 2 and 50 had been vaccinated. The following year England experienced the worst smallpox epidemic[1] in its history with 44,840 deaths. Between 1871 and 1880 the incidence of smallpox escalated from 28 to 46 per 100,000. The smallpox vaccine does not work.

Much of the success attributed to vaccination programs may actually have been due to improvement in public health related to water quality and sanitation, less crowded living conditions, better nutrition, and higher standards of living. Typically the incidence of a disease was clearly declining before the vaccine for that disease was introduced. In England the incidence of polio had decreased by 82 % before the polio vaccine was introduced in 1956.

In the early 1900s an astute Indiana physician, Dr. W.B. Clarke, stated "Cancer was practically unknown until compulsory vaccination with cowpox vaccine began to be introduced. I have had to deal with two hundred cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an unvaccinated[2] person."

There is a widely held belief that vaccines should not be criticized because the public might refuse to take them. This is valid only if the benefits exceed the known risks of the vaccines.

Do Vaccines Actually Prevent Disease?

This important question does not appear to have ever been adequately studied. Vaccines are enormously profitable for drug companies and recent legislation in the U.S. has exempted lawsuits against pharmaceutical firms in the event of adverse reactions to vaccines which are very common. In 1975 Germany stopped requiring pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination. Today less than 10 % of German children are vaccinated against pertussis. The number of cases of pertussis has steadily decreased[3] even though far fewer children are receiving pertussis vaccine.

Measles outbreaks have occurred in schools with vaccination rates over 98 % in all parts of the U.S. including areas that had reported no cases of measles for years. As measles immunization rates rise to high levels measles becomes a disease seen only in vaccinated persons. An outbreak of measles occurred in a school where 100 % of the children had been vaccinated. Measles mortality rates had declined by 97 % in England before measles vaccination was instituted.

In 1986 there were 1300 cases of pertussis in Kansas and 90 % of these cases occurred in children who had been adequately vaccinated. Similar vaccine failures have been reported from Nova Scotia where pertussis continues to be occurring despite universal vaccination. Pertussis remains endemic[4] in the Netherlands where for more than 20 years 96 % of children have received 3 pertussis shots by age 12 months.

After institution of diptheria vaccination in England and Wales in 1894 the number of deaths from diptheria rose by 20 % in the subsequent 15 years. Germany had compulsory vaccination in 1939. The rate of diptheria spiraled to 150,000 cases that year whereas, Norway which did not have compulsory vaccination, had only 50 cases of diptheria the same year.

The continued presence of these infectious diseases in children who have received vaccines proves that life long immunity which follows natural infection does not occur in persons receiving vaccines. The injection process places the viral particles into the blood without providing any clear way to eliminate these foreign substances.

Why Do Vaccines Fail To Protect Against Diseases?

Walene James, author of Immunization: the Reality Behind The Myth, states that the full[5] inflammatory response is necessary to create real immunity. Prior to the introduction of measles and mumps vaccines children got measles and mumps and in the great majority of cases these diseases were benign. Vaccines "trick" the body so it does not mount a complete inflammatory response to the injected virus.

Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS

The incidence of Sudden Infant Death syndrome SIDS has grown from .55 per 1000 live births in 1953 to 12.8 per 1000 in 1992 in Olmstead County, Minnesota. The peak incidence for SIDS is age 2 to 4 months the exact time most vaccines are being given to children. 85 % of cases of SIDS occur in the first 6 months of infancy. The increase in SIDS as a percentage of total infant deaths has risen from 2.5 per 1000 in 1953 to 17.9 per 1000 in 1992. This rise in SIDS deaths has occurred during a period when nearly every childhood disease was declining due to improved sanitation and medical progress except SIDS. These deaths from SIDS did increase during a period when the number of vaccines given a child was steadily rising to 36 per child.

Dr. W. Torch was able to document 12 deaths in infants which appeared within 3½ and 19 hours of a DPT immunization. He later reported 11 new cases of SIDS death and one near miss which had occurred within 24 hours of a DPT injection. When he studied 70 cases of SIDS two thirds of these victims[6] had been vaccinated from one half day to 3 weeks prior to their deaths. None of these deaths was attributed to vaccines. Vaccines are a sacred cow and nothing against them appears in the mass media because they are so profitable to pharmaceutical firms.

There is valid reason to think that not only are vaccines worthless in preventing disease they are counterproductive because they injure the immune system permitting cancer, auto-immune diseases and SIDS to cause much disability and death.

Are Vaccines Sterile?

Dr. Robert Strecker claimed that the department of defense DOD was given $10,000,000 in 1969 to create the AIDS virus to be used as a population-reducing[7] weapon against blacks. By use of the Freedom of Information Act Dr. Strecker was able to learn that the DOD secured funds from Congress to perform studies on immune destroying agents for germ warfare.

Once produced, the vaccine was given in two locations. Smallpox vaccine containing HIV was given to 100,000,000 Africans in 1977. Over 2000 young white homosexual males in New York City were given Hepatitis B vaccine that contained HIV virus in 1978. This vaccine was given at New York City Blood Center. The Hepatitis B vaccine containing the HIV virus was also administered to homosexual males in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St.Louis, Houston and Chicago in 1978 and 1979. U.S. Public Health epidemiology studies have disclosed that these same 6 cities had the highest incidence of AIDS, Aids related Complex (ARC) and deaths rates from HIV, when compared to other U.S. cities.

When a new virus is introduced into a community. It takes 20 years for the number of cases to double. If the fabricated story that green monkey bites of pygmies led to the HIV epidemic, the alleged monkey bites in the 1940s should have produced a peak in the incidence of HIV in the 1960s at which time HIV was non existent in Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) began a African smallpox vaccination campaign in 1977 that targeted urban population centers and avoided pygmies. If the green monkey bites of pygmies truly caused the HIV epidemic the incidence of HIV in pygmies should have been higher than in urban citizens. However, the opposite was true.

In 1954 Dr. Bernice Eddy (bacteriologist) discovered live monkey viruses in supposedly sterile inactivated polio vaccine[8] developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. This discovery was not well received at the NIH and Dr. Eddy was demoted. Later Dr. Eddy, working with Sarah Stewart, discovered SE polyoma virus. This virus was quite important because it caused cancer in every animal receiving it. Yellow fever vaccine had previously been found to contain avian (bird) leukemia virus. Later Dr. Hilleman isolated SV 40 virus from both the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines. There were 40 different viruses[9] in these polio vaccines they were trying to eradicate. They were never able to get rid of these viruses ontaminating the polio vaccines. The SV 40 virus causes malignancies. It has now been identified in 43 % of cases of non-Hodgekin lymphoma[10] , 36 % of brain tumors[11] , 18 % of healthy blood samples, and 22 % of healthy semen samples, mesothiolomas and other malignancies. By the time of this discovery SV 40 had already been injected into 10,000,000 people in Salk vaccine. Gastric digestion inactivtes some of SV 40 in Sabin vaccine. However, the isolation of strains of Sabin polio vaccine from all 38 cases of Guillan Barre Syndrome[12] GBS in Brazil suggests that significant numbers of persons are able to be infected from this vaccine. All 38 of these patients had received Sabin polio vaccine months to years before the onset of GBS. The incidence of non-Hodgekin lymphoma has"mysteriouly" doubled since the 1970s.

Dr. John Martin, Professor of Pathology at the Univ. of Southern California, was employed by the Viral Oncology Branch of the Bureau of Biologics (FDA) from 1976 to 1980. While employed there he identified foreign DNA in the live polio vaccine Orimune Lederle that suggested serious vaccine contamination. He warned his supervisors about this problem and was told to discontinue his work as it was outside the scope of testing required for polio vaccine.

Later Dr. Martin learned that all eleven of the African green monkeys used to grow the Lederle polio virus Orimune had grown simian cytomegalovirus from kidney cell cultures. Lederle was aware of this viral contamination as their Cytomegaloviral Contamination Plan[13] clearly showed in 1972. The Bureau of Biologics decided not to pursue the matter so production of infected polio vaccine continued.

In 1955 Dr. Martin identified unique cell destroying viruses termed stealth viruses in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. These viruses lacked genes that would enable the immune system to recognize them. Thus they were protected by the body's failure to develop antiviral antibodies. In March of 1995, Dr. Martin learned that some of these stealth viruses had originated from African green monkey simian cytomegalovirus of a type known to infect man.

The Lederle vaccine experience suggests that the higher-ups are not concerned about sloppy and dangerous preparation of vaccines. Animal cross infection is a huge unsolved current problem for all vaccine manufacturing. If this vaccine production sounds like an unbelievable mess to you, you are right.

The influential Club of Rome has a position paper in which they state that the world population is too large and needs to be reduced by 90 %. This means that 6 billion people must be reduced to 500 to 600 million. Obviously, creating famines and genocidal wars such as wrecked havoc in Africa, and loosing new laboratory-created diseases (HIV, Ebola, Marburg[14] , and probably West Nile virus and SARS) can help reduce the population. Other elitist groups (Trilaterals, Bildenbergers) have expressed similar concerns about excess people on planet Earth.

The company that was projected to produce the new smallpox vaccine in the U.S. was in serious trouble in England because of unsatisfactory quality of operations before setting up their facility in the U.S. Why would their performance here be any better than it was in England?

If there are important powerful groups of people that are determined to reduce the world population, what could be a more diabolically clever way to eliminate people than to inject them with a cancer-causing vaccine? The person receiving the injection would never suspect that the vaccine taken 10 to 15 years earlier had caused the cancer to appear.

Other Dangers From Vaccines

In the March 4, 1977 issue of Science Jonas and Darrell Salk warn, "Live virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis may in each instance produce the disease it intended to prevent. The live virus against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis (brain damage).

The swine flu vaccine was administered to the American public even though there had never been a case of swine flu identified in a human. Farmers refused to use the vaccine because it killed too many animals. Within a few months of use in humans this vaccine caused many cases of serious nerve injury (Guillan Barre syndrome).

An article in the Washington Post on Jan. 26, 1988 mentioned that all cases of polio since 1979 had been caused by the polio vaccine with no known cases of polio from a wild strain since 1979. This might have created a perfect situation to discontinue the vaccine, but the vaccine is still given. Vaccines are a wonderful source of profits with no risks to the drug companies since vaccine injuries are now recompensed by the government.

The steady escalation in the number of vaccines administered has been followed by an identical rise in the incidence of auto-immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, asthma) seen in children. While there is a genetic transmission of some of these diseases many are probably due to the injury from foreign protein particles, mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and other toxic agents injected in vaccines.

In 1999, the rotavirus vaccine was recommended by the Center for Disease Control for all infants. When this vaccine program was instituted several infants died and many had life endangering bowel obstructions. Prelicensure trials[15] of the rotavirus vaccine had demonstrated an increased incidence of intussusception 30 times greater than normal but the vaccine was released anyway without special warnings to practitioners to be on the lookout for bowel problems. Children's vaccines are often not studied for toxicity possibly because such study might eliminate them from being used.

A large study from Australia showed that the risk of developing encephalitis from the pertussis vaccine was 5 times greater than the risk of developing encephalitis by contacting pertussis by natural methods.

Naturally acquired immunity by illness evolves by spread of a virus from the respiratory tract to the liver, thymus, spleen, and bone marrow. When symptoms begin, the entire immune response has been mobilized to repel the invading virus. This complex immune system response creates antibodies that confer life long immunity against that invading virus and prepares the child to respond promptly to an infection by the same virus in the future.

Vaccination, in contrast, results in the persisting of live virus or other foreign antigens within the cells of the body, a situation that may provoke auto-immune reactions as the body attempts to destroy its own infected cells. There is no surprise that the incidence of auto-immune diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, subacute lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, asthma, psoriasis) has risen sharply in this era of multiple vaccine immunization.

Vaccine Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. John Classen has published 29 articles on vaccine-induced[16] diabetes. At least 8 of 10 children with Type 1 (insulin needing) diabetes have this disease as a result of vaccination. These children may have avoided measles, mumps, and whooping cough but they have received something far worse: an illness that shortens life expectancy by 10 to 15 years and results in a life requiring constant medical care.

Dr. Classen has shown in Finland, the introduction of hemophilus type b vaccine caused three times as many cases of type 1 diabetes as the number of deaths and brain damage from hemophilus influenza type b it might have prevented.

In New Zealand, the incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children rose by 61 % after an aggressive vaccine program against hepatitis B.. This same program has been started in the U.S.A. so we can now look forward to many cases of Type 1 diabetes in children. Similar rises in Type 1 diabetes have been seen in England, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark after immunization programs against Hepatitis B.

Toxic Substances Are Needed To Make Vaccines.

Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum.[17]

In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen from between 200 and 500 percent in every state in the U.S. This sharp rise in autism followed the introduction of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in 1975.

Representative Dan Burton's healthy grandson was given injections for 9 diseases in one day. These injections were instantly followed by autism. These injections contain a preservative of mercury called thimerosal. The boy received 41 times the amount of mercury which is capable of harm to the body. Mercury is a neurotoxin that can injure the brain and nervous system. And tragically, it did.

In the United States the number of compulsory vaccine injections has increased from 10 to 36 in the last 25 years. During this period, there has been a simultaneous increase in the number of children suffering learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Some of these childhood disabilities are related to intrauterine cerebral damage from maternal cocaine use, but probably vaccines cause many of the others.

Many vaccines contain aluminum. A new disease called macrophagic myofasciitis causes pain in muscles, bones and joints. All persons with this disease have received aluminum containing vaccines. Deposits of aluminum are able to remain as an irritant in tissues and disturb the immune and nervous system for a lifetime.

Nearly all vaccines contain aluminum and mercury. These metals appear to play an important role in the etiology of Alzheimer's Disease. An expert at the 1997 International Vaccine Conference related that a person who takes 5 or more annual flu vaccine shots has increased the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's Disease by a factor of 10 over the person who has had 2 or fewer flu shots.

When we take vaccines we are playing a modern version of Russian Roulette. We not only get exposed to aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde and foreign cell proteins but we may get simian virus 40 and other dangerous viruses which can cause cancer, leukemia and other severe health problems because the vaccine pool is contaminated due to careless animal isolation techniques. Congress has protected the manufacturers from lawsuits, so dangerous vaccines simply increase profits at no risk to the drug companies.

U.S. children aged 2 months began receiving hepatitis B vaccine in December 2000.No peer-reviewed studies of the safety of hepatitis B in this age bracket had been done. Over 36,000 adverse reactions with 440 deaths were soon reported but the true incidence is much higher as reporting is voluntary so only approximately 10 % of adverse reactions get reported. This means that about 5000 infants are dying annually from the hepatitis B vaccine. The CDC's Chief of Epidemiology admits that the frequency of serious reactions to hepatitis B vaccine is 10 times higher than other vaccines. Hepatitis B is transmitted sexually and by contaminated blood, so the incidence of this disease must be near zero in this age bracket. A vaccine expert, Dr. Philip Incao, states that "the conclusion is obvious that the risks[18] of hepatitis B vaccination far outweigh the benefits. Once a vaccine is mandated the vaccine manufacturer is no longer liable for adverse reactions.

Dr. W.B. Clarke's important observation that cancer was not found in unvaccinated individuals demands an explanation and one now appears forthcoming. All vaccines given over a short period of time to an immature immune system deplete the thymus gland (the primary gland involved in immune reactions) of irreplaceable immature immune cells. Each of these cells could have multiplied and developed into an army of valuable cells to combat infection and growth of abnormal cells. When these immune cells have been used up, permanent immunity may not appear. The Arthur Research Foundation in Tucson, Arizona estimates that up to 60 % of our immune system may be exhausted[19] by multiple mass vaccines (36 are now required for children). Only 10 % of immune cells are permanently lost when a child is permitted to develop natural immunity from disease. There needs to be grave concern about these immune system injuring vaccinations! Could the persons who approve these mass vaccinations know that they are impairing the health of these children, many of whom are being doomed to requiring much medical care in the future?

Compelling evidence is available that the development of the immune system after contracting the usual childhood diseases matures and renders it capable to fight infection and malignant cells in the future.

The use of multiple vaccines, which prevents natural immunity, promotes the development of allergies and asthma. A New Zealand study disclosed that 23 % of vaccinated children develop asthma , as compared to zero in unvaccinated children.

Cancer was a very rare illness in the 1890's. This evidence about immune system injury from vaccinating affords a plausible explanation for Dr. Clarke's finding that only vaccinated individuals got cancer. Some radical adverse change in health occurred in the early 1900s to permit cancer to explode and vaccinating appears to be the reason.

Vaccines are an unnatural phenomena. My guess is that if enough persons said no to immunizations there would be a striking improvement in general health with nature back in the immunizing business instead of man. Having a child vaccinated should be a choice not a requirement. Medical and religious exemptions are permitted by most states.

When governmental policies require vaccinations before children enter schools coercion has overruled the lack of evidence of vaccine efficacy and safety. There is no proof that vaccines work and they are never studied for safety before release. My opinion is that there is overwhelming evidence that vaccines are dangerous and the only reason for their existence is to increase profits of pharmaceutical firms.

If you are forced to immunize your children so they can enter school, obtain a notarized statement from the director of the facility that they will accept full financial responsibility for any adverse reaction from the vaccine. Since there is at least a 2 percent risk of a serious adverse reaction they may be smart enough to permit your child to escape a dangerous procedure. Recent legislation passed by Congress gives the government the power to imprison persons refusing to take vaccines (smallpox, anthrax, etc). This would be troublesome to enforce if large numbers of citizens declined to be vaccinated at the same time.

Footnotes:

1 Null Gary Vaccination: An Analysis of the Health Risks- Part Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
2 Mullins Eustace Murder by Injection pg 132 The National Council for Medical Research, P. O. Box 1105, Staunton, Virginia 24401
3 Gary Null Interview with Dr. Dean Black April 7, 1995
4 de Melker HE, et al Pertussis in the Netherlands: an outbreak despite high levels of immunization with whole-cell vaccine Emerging Infectious Diseases 1997; 3(2): 175-8 Centers for Disease Control
5 Gary Null Interview with Walene James, April 6, 1995
6 Torch WS Diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) immunizations: a potential cause of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Neurology 1982; 32-4 A169 abstract.
7 Collin Jonathan The Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients 1988 abstracted in Horowitz L. Emerging Viruses Aids & Ebola pg 1-5
8 Harris RJ et al Contaminant viruses in two live vaccines produced in chick cells.J Hyg (London) 1966 Mar:64(1) : 1-7
9 Horowitz Leonard G. Emerging Viruses AIDS & Ebola pg 484
10 Vilchez RA et al Association between simian virus 40 and non-Hodgekin lymphoma Lancet 2002 Mar 9;359(9309):817-823
11 Bu X A study of simian virus 40 infection and its origin in human brain tumors Zhonghu Liu Xing Bing Xue Zhi 2000 Feb;21 (1):19-21
12 Friedrich F. et al temporal association between the isolation of Sabin-related poliovirus vaccine strains and the Guillan-Barre syndrome Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 1996 Jan-Feb; 38(1):55-8
13 Horowitz Leonard Emerging Viruses: Aids and Ebola pg 492
14 Horowitz Leonard G Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola pg 378-88 Tetrahedron Inc. Suite 147, 206 North 4th Ave. Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 1-888-508-4787 tetra@tetrahedron.org
15 Null, Gary Vaccination: An Anatysis of the health risks-Part 3 Townsend letter for doctors & patients Dec. 2003 pg 78
16 Classen, JB et al. Association between type 1 diabetes and Hib vaccine BMJ 1999; 319:1133
17 Brain 9/01
18 Incao, philip M.D. Letter to representative Dale Van Vyven, Ohio House of Representatives March 1, 1999 provided to www.garynull.com by The Natural Immunity Information Network
19 Rowen Robert Your first consultation with Dr. Rowen pg 20

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Public health nurse Wanda LeGrande injects Brandie Kidd, 11, who was at the Knox County Health Department last month getting vaccinated for tetanus, chicken pox, meningitis and hepatitis A. Public health officials say many adolescents don’t get the immunizations they need. The shots are offered free to county residents at the health department

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When Laura Beeler's son, Zeke, 9, was a baby, she didn't think twice about having him immunized.

But when her daughter Leah Kate, now 5, was born, she gave vaccination a little more thought.

"I was more concerned when she was born because of all the media (coverage) and all the things I'd heard about autism" from friends, said Beeler, a Powell hair stylist. "I hadn't even heard of (those concerns) when Zeke was born."

Ultimately, Beeler had an in-depth conversation with her pediatrician, who was able to allay her fears.

She prayed about her decision.

And then she had Leah Kate immunized, although "we spread the shots out a little bit more so than we did with Zeke," she said.

Beeler isn't unusual. West Knoxville pediatrician Dr. Stephanie Shults said that as many as a quarter of the parents who come through her practice, Shults Pediatrics, have questions about vaccines.

Once the province of parents outside the medical mainstream, those questions are now being asked routinely. And there aren't any easy answers. While science has yet to find concrete evidence that vaccines damage children, the medical and pharmaceutical industries also have yet to win back the trust of wary parents.

Parents worry about a shot changing their child permanently, while public health professionals worry about the re-emergence of truly awful diseases that once killed or maimed huge numbers of children.

Pediatricians are caught in the middle, sympathetic to parents but strong in their own convictions that childhood immunization remains the best way to protect large numbers of the population from now-rare diseases.
Nationally, more than 80 percent of babies are still immunized. But even among them, how and when they get the shots are changing.

Set against shots

Melissa Cox decided before her children were born that she wouldn't vaccinate them. Cox, who lived in California at the time, visited a chiropractor while seeking relief from migraine headaches. The chiropractor was staunchly against vaccinations, and after giving Cox "a stack of research" that led her to do her own reading, she said, he had a convert.

Cox, of West Knoxville, now feels so strongly about her decision not to vaccinate Easton, 3, and Makenlee, 18 months, that she carries cards advocating for the Florida-based Vaccine Injury Coalition.

The cards list a bevy of unsavory ingredients in various vaccines - including formaldehyde, aluminum, lead, sulfates, yeast proteins, and tissues from chickens, monkeys, dogs, cows, pigs, rabbits, sheep and human fetuses - and urge, "Educate Before You Vaccinate."

"I think a lot of vaccines are unnecessary," Cox said. "I think there are too many - way too many."

Cox sees skipping them as one more way to keep her children healthy, along with keeping their diet "clean" and avoiding medications when possible.

She did worry, when Easton began preschool, whether his being unvaccinated would be a problem. Tennessee law requires proof of vaccination before a child can be enrolled in school; it allows parents a religious exemption, but not a philosophical one. Children can also have medical exemptions.

Cox believes vaccines go against her religious tenets, in part because some were made with human embryo stem-cell lines (derived before harvesting stem cells from embryos became illegal). But her nondenominational Christian church doesn't take a stand on vaccines. However, she learned that Tennessee requires only that parents sign a form from the health department; they no longer have to provide a letter from clergy.

Cox also worried about finding a pediatrician. More than one Knoxville practice openly refuses parents who don't vaccinate.

Cox's pediatrician, Dr. Michael Green of Trinity Medical Associates at Fort Sanders West, said he tries to address parents' concerns about vaccines, but he won't discharge their children if they decide not to vaccinate. Instead, he works on building a relationship of trust.

"My goal is that every patient I have that's a child be fully vaccinated," Green said. "I may have an altered view on approaching that, but I don't have an altered view on vaccination."

That's because he's seen just about all the diseases he vaccinates children against, with the exception of polio.

"When you see a child in the ICU with chicken pox, who has encephalitis or is about to lose an eye because of an infection, then you look at the parents and you think, 'Where's the vaccine?' " he said. "Almost 100 percent of the time, that would have prevented the worst-case scenarios. And you feel horrible. … You almost wonder, what will it take before people start to realize that we're not just playing around, these aren't just 'what color outfit am I going to dress my kid in?' These literally can be life-and-death decisions."

The re-emergence of almost vanquished diseases is a key argument for proponents of vaccination.

Earlier this year, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 131 cases of measles, the most reported in more than a decade. They found 95 of those infected could have been vaccinated but weren't - 63 of them because of their parents' philosophical or religious beliefs. Only 17 people picked up the disease overseas; the rest were infected in the United States.

Public health officials argue that getting children vaccinated is for a greater good because it protects those who can't be vaccinated - young babies, people with immune-system problems and children undergoing chemotherapy, to name some - as well as the 5 percent to 15 percent of the population for whom the vaccines don't work.

"If most everybody is vaccinated, it's going to protect the weaker ones," Shults said.

Green admits to some frustration when a patient's entire appointment is spent discussing vaccines, leaving no time for other important topics. At the same time, he's not unsympathetic.

"There are times when people say, 'OK, I think I'm going to do it today,' and you feel for them, because you feel the anxiety that they're about to do something they are really unsure about," Green said. "You want to say, 'Gosh, I've done my own kids, we do tons of kids. This is not like sending your kid over Niagara Falls in a barrel. We do this all the time.'"

When she began practicing pediatrics 14 years ago, Shults said, "it was so easy. Basically we told people what they needed, and they got it. Somewhere along the line, the trust between the medical profession and the lay people has collapsed."

'You just kind of lose them'

Debate over a vaccine-autism connection is partly to blame.

Cox, who once worked in public schools with special-needs children, believes there is a link. Though Easton is not autistic, he has been diagnosed with speech delays and sensory issues. Cox believes that had he been vaccinated, Easton might now be autistic.

Science has failed to find a link between vaccination and autism definitive enough to convince doctors and the government. The question divides even parents of autistic children.

Maryville mother Shaina Cutler believes her son, Brant, 9, had a genetic predisposition to autism, and that heavy metals, such as aluminum and mercury, in vaccines he got when he was between 18 and 24 months of age taxed his immune system to the point of permanent damage.

Cutler said Brant was a bright and bubbly baby, but that with each shot, he ran a high fever and was "glassy-eyed and lethargic" for days. By the time he was 2, she said, no trace of the happy, alert baby remained.

"You just kind of lose them," she said. "They're more distant. They don't look at you. They don't hear."

Had she made a connection between Brant's withdrawal and the shots earlier, she said, she would have stopped them. But Cutler had never heard of autism before her son was diagnosed. She now believes her daughter's onset of attention-deficit disorder also might have been hastened by vaccines.

Yet Cutler is on the board of the East Tennessee chapter of the Autism Society of America, which holds the position that there is no evidence of a link.

"I don't suggest that anyone not vaccinate their children," she said. "You don't want rampant disease … because everyone got scared and didn't vaccinate. I do have the opinion that they need to spread out the vaccinations."

If Cutler had a younger child, she would space out the shots, or perhaps wait until the child was 4 or 5 years old to start them, she said.

Many parents are finding such a "delayed schedule" to be a compromise between wanting the protection of vaccination and fearing the vaccines.

Taking more time

Jessi Blessinger of Farragut follows a modified version of Dr. Robert Sears' suggested "delayed schedule," never getting more than one shot per visit for her 15-month-old son, Leo.

Blessinger's husband, a physicist, travels overseas to Asia, South America and Central America frequently. Blessinger, though she has reservations, sees vaccination as the best way to protect her son from some diseases that his father, who has been vaccinated, might be exposed to. So she read about each vaccine and its purpose, choosing the ones that were "nonnegotiable," including pneumococcal and Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b), which she felt strongly enough about that she took Leo to the health department to get it because a shortage left his pediatrician without it.

Some other shots she decided to skip, including the vaccines for rotovirus ("still too new") and chicken pox (she worries that immunity would wear off when Leo is older and set him up for a more severe case than he would have had as a child).

"At the end of the day, everybody's going to do what works for their family. At least if you know people are putting thought into the decision … then you know that a good decision was made for that family," Blessinger said. "I'm probably never going to be 100 percent sold (on) either (position), but for now, this is what works for us."

Blessinger's pediatrician, Dr. Mark McColl of Trinity Medical, agreed to follow the Sears schedule because, he said, late vaccination is better than no vaccination. But he thinks the worry that too many vaccinations at once might "overload" a young child's system are unfounded.

"A child can come in and get six shots - at most, three needles worth of stuff," he said. "The likelihood of being exposed to 10 times that amount of stuff going to Walmart is a guarantee. You sit in my waiting room, you're going to be exposed to more things than I'm going to give you in that needle."

Parents sometimes balk at the newer "combo" shots, which have several vaccinations in one needle. Doctors like the combo shots for two reasons, Shults said: First, the child is injected fewer times, and second, it's easier to get the shots done early, and thus better protect the child.

It is possible, but not usually practical, to give individual vaccines instead of combo shots. For example, though drug company Merck, which makes an MMR combo shot, still makes individual vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, they have to be ordered in bulk. Most doctors don't have enough requests to justify the cost, and insurance won't always pay for the individual shots.

They're not always easy to find, either. Though a Merck customer service representative said the company hasn't discontinued the individual vaccines, none is currently available.

The newer vaccines are often better, Shults said. Polio and DTap are two; older versions of both more often caused adverse reactions.

"When I first came out of residency, we'd call back everybody (whose child had a shot) the next day and make sure they were OK," she said. "We don't have to do that anymore. They may run a little fever, and they may be a little fussy, but for the most part, 90 percent of the kids are going to tolerate them very well."

McColl, Green and Shults all say they've reviewed anti-vaccine information parents have brought them. They also keep up-to-date on studies from sources they trust. Nothing they've seen so far sways their conviction that the risk of vaccination is smaller than the risk of not vaccinating.

Vaccines "changed the way I do medicine," Shults said. "Take (pneumococcal): When we had a kid with a 104-degree fever, we told you to go to the ER. You couldn't leave that kid sitting at home with strep pneumo - they could be dead the next morning. A perfectly healthy kid.

"We don't do near as many blood cultures, inject as many antibiotics, or have as many ER visits. Then the rotovirus - oh, my goodness. In my practice alone, we used to send five or six kids to the hospital each year with rotovirus. Last year, I didn't have one."

Kristi L. Nelson may be reached at 865-342-6434.

© 2008, Knoxville News Sentinel Co.

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Shootings in America

THE BOLD TRUTH

Conneticuit School Shooting Staged (Actors). - 15 yr old kid picked to take fall, looked as if druged.


President + CIA = Shootings = Regulation on Constitution, 2nd Amendment

The shooting all over America, came about by domestic Terrorism by our US Gov. Agency CIA and the help of the President.


Arizona Shooting - Shooter Brainwashed

Colorado Batman Shooting - Shooter Brainwashed
 

PREPARE FOR A CIVIL WAR BEGINNING IN 2013/2014

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA
POSSIBLY IN MARCH 2013

The President has Declared War on the American People, 1st with Katrina Victims, next pushing state govenors to vote on passing legislation in NY to outlaw guns statewide in the middle of the night without the other half of state representatives (pro gun) being present to object, totally unconstitutional.

Our Current President has said he will delcare Martial Law in Civil Unrest Scenerio.

There is a movement of Officials Nationwide who are standing up and saying enough is enough, Where not taking it no more. We will defend one another.

State Officials in Kentucky, Texas, Oregon, Mississippi has said that they will protect their 2nd Amendment rightrs in their territory from gun confication by any the fed gov agent (ATF) etc.

23 Executive Orders Signed into Law by our President. In Order to Rule America as King Obama.

January 8, 2013 by Tim Brown

CO Sheriff: “I Will Protect Constitutional Rights…With My Dying Breath”

Sheriff Ronald B. Bruce has been the Sheriff of Hinsdale County in Colorado since his election in 2007. He contacted Freedom Outpost to let us know that he stands with Sheriff Scott Berry of Georgia and will not take his business to others who will discriminate against law abiding citizens in selling semi-automatic rifles, but stated unashamedly that with his dying breath he will protect current and existing Constitutional rights of those who elected him.

Bruce has been the Sheriff of Hinsdale County for the past six years. Prior to that he served in the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s Highway Patrol. He retired as a State Trooper, having served 28 years.

Sheriff Bruce wrote to me following the story on Sheriff Berry, “I’m on board with the Georgia Sheriff. If we learn of any of our suppliers that normally sold to civilians and are now discontinuing such sales, they too have lost our business.”

That’s not all, Bruce had already taken initiative by closing an account his office had with online retailer Cheaper Than Dirt. He wrote, “We cancelled our account with Cheaper Than Dirt after they quickly almost doubled their price for .223/5.56 and .308/7.62mm ammunition. They also suspended all “assault” type firearms sales to re-evaluate their position on this…read, figure how much they could get away with in the escalation of their prices for semi-auto carbines.”

Bruce was referencing the pull of the sell of all firearms following the Sandy Hook Shooting. Cheaper Than Dirt finally opened sales back up to handguns, including semi-automatics, and rifles, but are no longer offering the semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15. Dick’s Sporting Goods, which are way over priced if you ask me, went all out of their way to hide a page which featured a Bushmaster AR-15 “out of respect for the victims and their families” and had even suspended sales of modern rifles. Out of respect for victims and families you hide a product on your website and stop selling certain ones for a period of time? That’s not respect, it’s trying to be politically correct.

While Cheaper Than Dirt has brought back the sale of handguns and shotguns, even semi-automatics in both varieties, they have not brought back semi-automatic rifles such as the AR styles they carried before. They do carry accessories and ammunition for these weapons, but they are anything but “cheap.”

Sheriff Bruce is a giving sheriff. He informed me that, “We are a very strong pro-2nd Amendment Sheriff’s Office. I and my staff are currently the only certified CHP instructors in the county and offer the classes free to any county resident.”

Bruce told Freedom Outpost that approximately 50% of the legal adult citizens in his county have obtained their concealed carry permits.

He then stated what I think should be every Sheriff’s motto,

“I have assured numerous constituents who have contacted our office since BHO’s re-election, that with my dying breath, I would protect their current/existing Constitutional Rights.”

When I contacted Sheriff Bruce back in order to confirm that I might be able to share his stand with my readers, here was his response, “Let ‘er rip Tim. I like to think I’m a man of conviction and don’t shirk my beliefs in the face of opposition.”

In my book, it is men like Sheriff Berry and Sheriff Bruce who should be held in high honor in their communities. They are the last stand against an oppressive federal government. Thank you Sheriff Bruce for your commitment to the people of Hinsdale County. May God grant you strength to continue serving well and may He raise up more men of conviction to serve other counties in our country in the same manner.

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