The parents of more than 2,300 students in Prince George‘s County, Maryland, could face fines of $50 a day and 10 days in jail if their children do not meet the state‘s immunization requirements.
Prince George‘s has been struggling to get its 131,000 students immunized for chicken pox and hepatitis B, as is required by the state. More than 2,300 students have not been immunized, and have therefore been barred from attending schools.
School officials have previously made calls, sent letters and conducted home visits in attempts to make arrangements for free appointments for the shots.
The most recent round of letters ordered the parents to show up at Prince George‘s Circuit Court for a court hearing and free on-the-spot vaccinations of up to 17 required doses.
Any child lacking immunizations can be expelled, and their parents then brought up on truancy charges, which can result in a 10-day jail sentence for the first offence, and 30 days for a second.
Angry and upset parents called county’s action “intimidating,” and “very heavy handed.”
School officials deemed the court action a “success,” as the number of children lacking vaccinations dropped from 2,300 to about 1,100 by Friday November 16. That leaves about 900 children out of compliance with the vaccination requirements, said school system spokesman John White.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued a press release condemning Maryland’s vaccine roundup, promising to do everything it can to support parents who refuse to immunize their children.
“This power play obliterates informed consent and parental rights,” said Kathryn Serkes, director of policy for the AAPS, one of the few national physician groups that refuse corporate funding from pharmaceutical companies. “This campaign of intimidation to brutally enforce blanket vaccine mandates by government agencies and the school district gives no consideration for the rights of the parents or the individual medical condition of the child.”
The AAPS press release goes on to state, “Children should be carefully screened, medical records taken and decisions made carefully – not in an ad hoc assembly-line clinic in a county courtroom and under the brutal watch of law enforcement. This is a man-made disaster ready and waiting to detonate. Children could receive a dangerous cocktail of several vaccines without proper examinations.”
“The procedure is reckless and subjects children to the risk of severe reactions. Physicians would not be allowed to treat children in this way, without individual histories and physical exams – or informed consent,” said Jane M. Orient, M.D., AAPS Executive Director.
Interestingly, the state‘s attorney, Mr. Glenn Ivey himself apparently has no problem invoking his own right to informed consent and parental control. In a radio interview on Thursday, November 15, he admitted that he has chosen to refuse the hepatitis B vaccines for his own children. The AAPS stated that Mr. Ivey’s “galling hypocrisy” clearly demonstrates that not every vaccine is right for every child.
What makes this story even more infuriating is that there is virtually no medical necessity to justify using these vaccines. I was strongly opposed to both the hepatitis B vaccine, and the chicken pox vaccine long before they both became mandatory -- for some very good reasons.
I am happy to see the AAPS is setting up a legal team to help parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated despite these Gestapo-like tactics, and encourage anyone who needs their help to contact them. The AAPS were also the coalition responsible for overturning Texas Governor Perry’s executive order to make the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) mandatory for schoolgirls, last spring.
If this kind of forced medical treatment does not bother you, then you may have given up the very last shred of personal freedom you, and your children, have.
If that is the case, make no mistake – it will not end with the forceful poisoning of your children. There are lots of medications out there that the pharmaceutical industry would love for everyone to eat in lieu of breakfast… What medications, and how many, would you like to be force-fed every day? Or do you truly believe industry, together with your government, would never take it that far even if they could? I believe public opposition is the only thing standing in their way.
Where are We Heading?
To get a glimpse of your potential future without using a crystal ball, just look at the current trends. For example, according to a BBC news brief, aired over the Thanksgiving weekend, autism has skyrocketed from 1 in 10,000 in 1993, to the current rate of 1 in 150. The mandatory immunizations program and the MMR vaccine were introduced in 1998.
Coincidence?
Hardly. Although you will read reports, and hear through the conventional media that this has been disproven, don’t you believe it, as nothing could be further from the truth.
Are they involved in all cases of autism?
Probably not, but they are a major factor in many, especially in conjunction with the absolute explosion in exposure to information-carrying radio waves from cell phones, cell phone towers and WiFi routers. These waves tend to disrupt intercellular communication microtubules, which greatly increase these children’s ability to tolerate heavy metal insults that can cause severe free radical injury.
What are some other trends?
What do you believe all these trends point toward?
However, there are always two sides to a coin, and on the flip side, more and more people are slowly waking up and are searching for true health.
In a survey from 1990, 34 percent of the people surveyed used at least one “unconventional” intervention in the past year. Indeed, their visits to “alternative” practitioners exceeded visits to primary care medical physicians in that year. A follow-up study in 1997 reported that utilization of some form of “alternative” health care had increased to 42.1 percent, and as of 2002, 62 percent of Americans use it!
Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical industry appears quite ruthless when it comes to protecting profits, and perhaps the rise in alternative health care spending is one of the reasons behind more aggressive advertising, and increased “incentives” to doctors and public officials to enforce “public health” issues. At gunpoint if necessary.
What Can You Do to Avoid Vaccinations?
Remember, frightening as it may seem, you still have the legal right to refuse to vaccinate your children. While all 50 states have immunization requirements, 28 allow parents to opt out for medical or religious reasons. Another 20 states allow parents to opt out for personal or philosophical reasons as well.
Mississippi and West Virginia allow parents to opt out for medical reasons only.
Maryland, despite their handling of the issue, also still offers the right to opt out. My previous article, How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds, spells out how you go about practicing this right.
You also need to educate yourself on the dangers of the vaccines that your doctor or pediatrician insists on administering. I have numerous articles detailing the dangers of various vaccines on this site, and you have the entire internet at your disposal in addition to what I have documented through the years.
A good place to start is my vaccinations links page, and there is an entire chapter in my book Take Control of Your Health devoted to this very topic.
I also recommend reading my previous article about chicken pox, which explains why your child REALLY DOESN’T need the state mandated chicken pox vaccine, and Michael Belkin’s Testimony to Congress about the dangers of the hepatitis B vaccine. Mr. Ivey probably knows these facts already – you should too.